[Yamato lifted his head then, letting a little tutting noise as if exasperated]

I suppose not. You do bizarre things like this with increasing frequency, so it should have been expected.

[But why, was the question. Why was Alcor so intent upon his 'happiness'. Yamato had none. Not to say that he was perpetually depressed or sad, but that he had no use for those kind of emotions, and Alcor's attempts to rouse them was just childish - for an observer of humanity, Alcor's immaturity was...]

I do not understand, at times.