[There aren't enough ellipses in the world to cover Desmond's thought process right now, as he mulls this over. The coronal mass ejection was paused? Juno was too? Huh.]

Sounds like I'm back in the Animus, that I can just pause the world for as long as I need a break.

[The laughter is returned.]

Heh, yeah. I mean...I bet the longer a person's here, the easier it gets to think about it. I'm just a little raw yet, both literally and philosophically.