Lulu listened to his story, making sure to stay perfectly still. It seemed that people had set out to create their own adventures in other worlds, that they'd gotten restless and tried to figure out their own ways to make sense of things.
When he talked about his woman being married, she swallowed hard. "One of the people I know from... from my world says that I'm married and have a child back home. I don't remember it." She didn't know why she was telling Artan - apparently he was therapist for a day - but she quickly moved back to his story. "You realized you loved her because of that. It's sweet, you know. Being willing to sacrifice things for someone else."