Winston Umbra hadn't changed either, Ford noted with a chuckle, though in this case it was less about appearance and more about his mannerisms. Umbra had been near him in school and a coworker in the Spirit Division, so they had interacted pretty extensively, but even if they had only met once or twice before Ford was sure that he would have remembered the other man. He was just so odd — but not in the same way that Tycho could have been described as odd, by people who didn't know him as well as Ford did. His own particular brand of odd.

"Yeah, I dyed it but it all grew back," Ford joked, then realized belatedly that he was unsure whether Umbra would recognize this as a joke. "Did you come with someone?"

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