Six thought back on the basic definition of family that Claire gave. She said they were based on love. Love was intense affection and affection was strong feelings of fondness or liking someone.
He liked Claire but he didn't think it was strong enough to be classified as affection. He liked her in the way that he liked phone games, anime, or cheeseburgers. All of those things were pleasant or interesting to him.
This sort of emotion was entirely new to him so he wasn't capable of feeling it very strongly. She wasn't like that; whatever emotion she was feeling it always seemed to be of the more intense variety.
She made more facial expressions alone than everyone else he interacted with regularly did altogether. That made watching her rather fascinating.
