[ Vasiliy smiles rather sheepishly, and it's his turn to break eye contact. ]
Not really. I had time to sleep.
[ He's sure that working as an EMT would have taught him to sleep just about anywhere if he hadn't already known how to, but it's a skill he learned much earlier, within the yellow walls of the Lubyanka. When the Purge hit a fever pitch, one shift had bled into the next, confessions finally obtained so close to the beginning of his next shift that it had made more sense to simply sleep with his head down on his forearms in the interrogation room for the few hours he had.
And even if he hadn't slept... this is, admittedly, the one chance he'll have in life to meet a real cosmonaut, and probably also anyone awarded Hero of the Soviet Union. Regardless of the man's body's state of disrepair, it's quite an honor, and his very presence seems to extrude rays of warmth. He'd stay here forever if he could. ]
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Not really. I had time to sleep.
[ He's sure that working as an EMT would have taught him to sleep just about anywhere if he hadn't already known how to, but it's a skill he learned much earlier, within the yellow walls of the Lubyanka. When the Purge hit a fever pitch, one shift had bled into the next, confessions finally obtained so close to the beginning of his next shift that it had made more sense to simply sleep with his head down on his forearms in the interrogation room for the few hours he had.
And even if he hadn't slept... this is, admittedly, the one chance he'll have in life to meet a real cosmonaut, and probably also anyone awarded Hero of the Soviet Union. Regardless of the man's body's state of disrepair, it's quite an honor, and his very presence seems to extrude rays of warmth. He'd stay here forever if he could. ]