He took her hand gratefully, if a bit without thought. It just seemed natural, and he didn't even glance up at it.
"No. The first time was when I was still a kid. Uncle Matt had always said that, if ever there was too long a time between postcards, that he wanted me to go out there and find him. There had been a couple of weeks without any news, and... I wasn't a true explorer then, not yet, but I knew I had to do my duty and go out there. The entirety of Fraggle Rock got behind me, and then threw me a goodbye party completely by surprise. In the end I didn't have to go because a postcard came in, explaining that he'd been sick, but..."
He trailed off, looking down a moment in thought. "That was the first time for a lot of things, I think. The other Fraggles getting behind me for something, the thought of me leaving the Rock for Outer Space... and only a week before I'd been stuck out there in Doc's Workshop! I couldn't think of anything but getting back into Fraggle Rock, and now here I am out here thinking about how far I've gone from Fraggle Rock."
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"No. The first time was when I was still a kid. Uncle Matt had always said that, if ever there was too long a time between postcards, that he wanted me to go out there and find him. There had been a couple of weeks without any news, and... I wasn't a true explorer then, not yet, but I knew I had to do my duty and go out there. The entirety of Fraggle Rock got behind me, and then threw me a goodbye party completely by surprise. In the end I didn't have to go because a postcard came in, explaining that he'd been sick, but..."
He trailed off, looking down a moment in thought. "That was the first time for a lot of things, I think. The other Fraggles getting behind me for something, the thought of me leaving the Rock for Outer Space... and only a week before I'd been stuck out there in Doc's Workshop! I couldn't think of anything but getting back into Fraggle Rock, and now here I am out here thinking about how far I've gone from Fraggle Rock."