Tycho only nodded and sipped at his cocoa, letting it warm him when his friend said he was sorry before silence fell. He looked over at Ford as the other man kept shifting in his chair and smiled sympathetically when Ford spoke once more.

"I had no idea that was how you saw me.. but I like that," Tycho said as he took in what Ford was saying to him. "Did you want to talk more about your sweetheart?" Tycho both wanted to hear all about it - out of a combination of nosiness and genuine desire to let Ford get things off his chest - and didn't want to hear it.