He was - he was a really early phase, he says. Of what seems like our most fragile cluster. And she's got whatever problems you get when you're a Bell whose planet is infested with mind-controlling alien brain parasites? And she scared him a little even before they found out about the brain parasites, and then it just... he couldn't handle stuff the way she wanted him to, and neither of them really knew how to handle each other, and it got to be kind of a mess.
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He was - he was a really early phase, he says. Of what seems like our most fragile cluster. And she's got whatever problems you get when you're a Bell whose planet is infested with mind-controlling alien brain parasites? And she scared him a little even before they found out about the brain parasites, and then it just... he couldn't handle stuff the way she wanted him to, and neither of them really knew how to handle each other, and it got to be kind of a mess.