[Only a handful of months at best. Had he stayed on the SEEDs ship, within hours he and his brother would have stumbled across Tessla. And then the inevitable would follow. But for now, oblivious to the horrific fate that would await, he's content with his hole.

Less content with the way sand kept sliding back into it.]

It's like there was another type of ground here before the sand came. Getting down much more than this is really hard, and the dirt's a lot darker. Is that clay?

[Probably he should get out of his hole. It's hard to go anywhere when hip deep in sand.]

I think it got mentioned before. If you drink salty water you just get thirstier. Dehydration. Um.

[Leaving sounded okay. That meant he'd have to meet a whole bunch of other people though and that sounded kind of overwhelming. Maybe it would be nice but he didn't expect to ever meet a lot of other people in just a pair of pants.]

It is a little cold, I guess. If..

[Brave! He can do it! Even if his brother was nowhere around and neither was Rem, it'd be okay.]

.. If I'm going to have to meet other people, could. .. Um. I don't have a shirt.

[He's a little uneasy about the idea of People, but there's no sense he's actually afraid, just a bit intimidated and possibly alarmingly shy of strangers.]