Gold hugging it doesn’t go unnoticed either. Trip won’t point out how it really did seem like something a much younger child would do… but he had to ask a question. Gold wasn’t remotely cutesy, the gesture felt genuine, so he could only think to ask, “Did you ever have something like that before? Back home?”

Either this was a nostalgic comfort, or… Gold never had plushies like this in the first place and this was his very first. He had a sentimental nature himself and could easily understand the first possibility, but he truly hoped it wasn’t the second… that would’ve been too sad.

“Not by name, I think,” Trip said, although it could very well be that Gold had mentioned him in passing… without a photograph, it might be harder for Trip to recall.