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A question born of curiosity and the moment: At what point is it appropriate to tell your fiance, "I told you so"? Before, or after you retrieve him from floating in space after he did exactly what you told him you knew he'd do?

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Oooh that's a hard one. And I'm guessing this isn't metaphorically...

No. John is many things, and stubborn is one of them.

I'd imagine so. I guess a afterward of I Told You So works then.

Then that is what I'll try. And I will remind him that at least I decided to retrieve him first.

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Sounds like it. You two have quite the relationship.

It has not been easy, and it will not be easy in the future. But it will endure.

I'd imagine so.

Everything okay on your end now I take it? Nothing crazy since this incident?

We shall see. His homeworld is embroiled in civil war, and reports from Minbar do not sound promising either.

Oof. Wait, his homeworld is earth right?

Yes, and beyond the problems on each of our worlds, I'm afraid that the scars from the war between us still run deep.

It sounds horrible. The worlds damaged like that.

It was. The worst of it was that we knew we were wrong. We only were looking for a reason to stop.

That's the hardest part I think. There's so much to do after all in rebuilding.

In retrospect, I wish that we had thought more about rebuilding in our society, just as the Humans considered it with theirs.

It's a way to look up to the future I think. If you do that often.

It is indeed. I often wonder what Valen would say if he saw what our castes have devolved into--two constantly bickering, the third caught in the middle and barely raised from the slavery he sought to liberate them from.

Kind of sounds like he would tell everyone to get their shit together. But you know, more politely.

I am sure that the thought must have crossed his mind.

I would be surprised if it didn't.

That sort of sounds incredibly specific.

I had pointed out something to him--a look in his eye when he sees something he wants badly. He called it lies and slander, before amending it to "damned inconvenient." And, as inconvenient as it was, I was right and that thing he wanted ended up causing a lot of trouble.

I'm sorry to hear that. I suppose a lot of our lives are complicated, so I shouldn't ask.

It is all right. It all worked out in the end. As dangerous as the situation was, it was not as much as the war we recently fought, more like unfinished business the Vorlons left behind.

I'm glad. But unfinished business? Is that the sort I'm used to, with leftover monsters after their makers have given up and left?

It seems that many millennia ago, the Vorlons came across a third region of space, beyond normal space and hyperspace. Within this Thirdspace were creatures who began to telepathically control some of them, so in the midst of potential war, the Vorlons had to lock the gate to Thirdspace. Unfortunately, that is what we found, and John became so interested in.

No wonder you were worried. I'm sorry. I'm not sure what to do in that kind of case.

It is difficult. But I suppose I should consider this practice for our marriage.

You're afraid something more is going to happen?

John is...how can I put this? He gets a look in his eyes when he decides on an action, and you can just hear the "mine, mine, mine!" going on in his mind. And when he's like that, nothing will dissuade him from his course.

That does sound hard to deal with. I'm sorry.

It is something I think I can survive.

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