"I missed you too, habibi," she says quietly. She's aware that it might be faintly ridiculous, given that they hadn't been separated for, in the grand scheme of things, very long - or at least not for very long that she'd been aware of, there's no telling how long it had actually taken to transport them and insert tracking chips, and whatever else might have been done to them while they were unconscious - but the uncertainty and the overwhelming distance of another habitable planet had made it weigh far heavier.
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