There actually wasn't any reason that Vitali shouldn't have trusted Mariya. She hadn't done anything just yet to seem suspicious, though she was acting ever so slightly awkwardly in some aspects.<br/><br/>Nevertheless, he wasn't going to do anything to act on that just yet. He didn't have any reason to. Rather, he figured that he hadn't seen her in a long time and maybe she was just a little different at this point.<br/><br/>For all he knew, she might have picked up some different mannerisms due to the fact that she had been living in the United Kingdom. It was, of course, far away from the USSR both geographically and culturally.<br/><br/>Soon enough he warmed up quite a bit, having no idea that she was watching him as though he were some sort of test organism. The fact that she had agreed to call him Viti, in spite of being a national hero, was quite sweet.<br/><br/>"What should I call you? Nothing seems fitting for a major international traveler either, eh?"<br/><br/>He didn't, of course, reflect on the fact that he had traveled higher than most people, but it was of course a joke.<br/><br/>"The food is really that bad then?" He chuckled for a moment and then returned his eyes up at her. While he was a bit disappointed that she didn't get to do all of the things that he would have associated with those living in Britain as doing, he wasn't going to actually say that for fear of having looked rude.<br/><br/>"I know how it is to be at want of course. I am Evenki if you remember." Vitali smiled a bit sadly, "Then again, no matter what my race they can't take away the fact that I'm a hero now, right?"<br/><br/>Eventually his curiosity was assuaged. From his point of view she had to be the same old Mariya. The way that she was biting her lip was precisely the way that she had done it for all that time, and that would have meant to him that she had maintained many of her old mannerisms.<br/><br/>That was comforting to know, even if he didn't know the full picture.<br/><br/>"I would like that, if you don't mind. It's a lot better than taking my borsch and caviar out of a metal tube like I was." Vitali laughed for a moment.<br/><br/>"One of the strangest feelings at first is when you first try to eat it...up there I mean!" He pointed to the sky. "When you're in orbit, you don't have any sense of a down direction. That means that you can actually feel your food floating around in your stomach and such. It's unusual, and at first you can kind of feel really sick, but you get used to it after a while."<br/><br/>Soon he chuckled once more, "Going to the bathroom is quite the challenge as well! Remember, after all, that everything floats!"<br/><br/>He sounded so innocent as he discussed how such normal things on Earth become quite a challenge once you were in space.