"This changes everything," Claudy summed up the situation once we brought him up to speed. "But at the same time, it changes nothing, doesn't it?"
Raising his eyes, Claudy looked first at Fay before moving his eyes over to my face.
"Or does it?"
I pressed my lips together, not exactly sure how to proceed.
I thought over the issue ever since we finally reached our satisfaction, throughout the time we took to clean up the main area of the buggy and then finally dress ourselves up, only to then approach Claudy's pod and tap on it, to indicate it was now safe for him to leave its confines.
In other words, this wasn't a problem I was mentally slacking on. Instead, it was a problem with exactly the same weight of points for pushing through a little bit longer and deeper into the plains and for executing the second phase of this trip that was originally scheduled for in two days.
