“If you’re human, you’re supposed to just know. You’re supposed to just know what other people need to hear at a given moment or what you shouldn’t say even though it’s obvious……… I swing and miss wildly a lot of the time,” Malcolm admits.
"Then I missed them or I missed the opportunity for them, but you're being extended the hand up and I'm glad to see it. A little envious,but glad," Malcolm tells him. "I was never offered that. I guess... in some ways I was always off-putting to other people. And the harder I tried not to be, the more I was."
He tilts his head, considering. "Then... go somewhere else. You can go to any world you want from here, can't you? There's not going to be whole universes where no one feels like you about things. The barge is... more people than I knew before, but everyone says it's not that big."
"This is actually the only place I have had that. I was from a much, much bigger world and I never had it. Not once," Malcolm tells him. "So... I'm afraid that if I don't make the effort... I'm not doing my part."
“Someone has to start it, though,” Malcolm tells him. “One person has to reach the hand out and see if they can get the other person to take it,” he adds.
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"I don't know. Other than in breaches I've never been human, so I don't know how it would be different. It could be though."
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"Well. Don't try then, maybe. Just... be, and let people who like you find you."
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What does he mean?
"I mean... be you, and some people won't like it, but the ones who do will show you they do."
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Edwin please take your own advice.
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