Listen, Sunny, you're a great meat shield! Everyone can stop a speeding bullet. Once.

Still...

Arche isn't in the greatest shape mentally or emotionally right now but she is, at last, picking up on her travel companion's difficulty with words. She looks thoughtfully at the book that conveyed his earlier message; it's an astounding tool, to be sure, but it also seems to be one that makes the trials of human communication easier for Sunny.

Once she knows how it works, Arche will write him. And then maybe their second meeting - or even 'meeting' - can be more comfortable than this first one.