Matt listened as Amos talked, taking it all in - the story of how he'd gotten off Earth, the system that was in place to dole out spaces for people to get off the planet. It was exactly the sort of thing he could imagine happening back home if it turned out that all of this worked out the way Amos was telling him it might. So many left behind while others left their world behind to find something new.
Matt just knew the kind of inequity a system like that could breed so when Amos told him he'd had a friend help him fake information he needed to get on a ticket that wasn't being used he could hardly judge him for taking that chance. He couldn't imagine it was a simple thing to get a ticket like that and if it meant that he'd gone down another path, not the one that his father had been aiming him down, Matt couldn't help but think things had turned out for the best for him.
"It sounds like it worked out for you then, getting away like that." Matt knew what it was to want to run, he didn't think he'd have had it in him to do what Amos had, he was a product of his city and tied to it's fate whatever happened. He didn't know where it would lead him, but he had a feeling it was the sort of fate that wouldn't have him seeing the places they'd go in four decades regardless.
"That doesn't sound like it was a quick trip." Matt didn't know what rocks Amos was talking about or what had happened, but it sounded fairly obvious that whatever it had been had thrown off his plans for what was meant to be a quick trip back for him.