Honestly, Vitali was glad that their races hadn't gotten in the way of anything. Some people actually were particular about all of that, but he thought like she did. Friendship was much more than skin deep, and should have been treated as such. He didn't know why people thought any other way.<br/><br/>It was honestly rather foolish to him, but he just worked with what cards life had dealt him anyway.<br/><br/>"Of course it would be clean you know." Soon enough he was laughing again. "Do you really think that I would have had you put up in some kind of a dive?" He then frowned once she mentioned paying him back. "Don't worry about it all; I can handle it for you. What do you mean if and when you get a job, though?" He honestly hadn't thought that she would have been staying in the USSR long enough to concern herself with that.<br/><br/>Eventually these happier thoughts, however, were starting to leave him. It was increasingly looking like she was trying to skirt some issue. Maybe he was right when he had assumed she was up to something before. It was certainly starting to look that way.<br/><br/>She didn't seem to want to stay focused on one thing too long, and certain things were causing her to skirt off them and instead talk about other aspects.<br/><br/>Nevertheless, Vitali was soon shaking his head at the next question that he was asked by her. "No, I'm not proud of myself. Pride is a negative emotion, and if space flight were anything, then it is humbling. It's the most humbling experience to realize how small and insignificant each one of us really is."<br/><br/>Laughing, he shook his head apparently thoughtfully. "That being said, I actually wasn't able to see any stars up in the sky above the Earth at all anyway."