Admittedly, Lionel hadn’t spent much time perusing the Visitor until the announcement came out of the initial malfunction. He wasn’t immediately unsettled, having had spent nineteen years of his life on Earth quelling any anxiety that rose in his household. But it was something about suffocating or starving; this slow, burning, unhindered death, that kept him farther away from his rational thinking. He paced in a lounge area, though he wasn’t sure why.
Lionel had sworn to himself not to drink on their journey. He wanted to be sober until they reached Abellio, for no reason in particular, maybe just to raise a glass to his old lover as he began his new life - something cheesy romantic as that. But ambling into a conveniently placed bar outside the lounge, he ordered a drink he couldn’t remember the name of and took down three shots of it. As he brought his head up from the bottom of his glass, he noticed another entity in the room, and suddenly he felt a rush of embarrassment accompanied with an odd swell of relief.
“. . . Hello there.” greeted Lionel, a slur characterizing his speech as he fell back onto the couch in mild distress.