Strangely, Vitali had also experienced plenty of feelings of not being at home as well. He figured that this wasn't anything like the Evenk Autonomous Okrug. Honestly his homeland was there amongst his own people. Admittedly he even missed growing up with Mariya over in European Russia. This indeterminate point in the middle of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic was nothing that interested him when it came to living here.<br/><br/>It had an unusual climate that ranged from oppressively hot to bitter cold. The place was essentially a desert that received heavy precipitation in the winter. However, it was relatively close to the equator and that meant that it was a decent place for a launch facility.<br/><br/>Eventually, though, he wanted to go home, and having been to outer space he realized just how fleeting the concept of home really was. Soon enough her words had dragged him back to the present reality that he was dealing with, though. What she had been saying did ultimately get a laugh out of him even.<br/><br/>"What if I said that all I was after was indeed your cooking?" Soon after that he had ended up also laughing at her comment about not allowing her forget the fact that he was a national hero. "Hmm, maybe I will, I'll have to remind you that I can't get hurt because the very future of the space program relies on my health."<br/><br/>Naturally that kind of thinking caused him to giggle. It was nice to shrug away some of the other points that he had been thinking about.<br/><br/>"Are you suggesting that we get hitched?" For what it was worth, Vitali's eyes lit up at the idea. Any sort of concern that he might have been showing before seemed to have vanished as he now focused on this rather than anything else.<br/><br/>She might have agreed to it merely on professional grounds as well. It would have made it easy to collect information on him. Fortunately, he didn't know this at all yet. He would have been incredibly hurt if something like that were to happen to him.<br/><br/>"I love you Mariya, more than anything in the entire..." He paused, searching for a word as he hung on the statement.<br/><br/>"Would galaxy be appropriate here?" The sheer thought of phrasing it that way had made him laugh out loud.