>Well, as you point out, he wasn't thinking very straight at the time.
>He may have "regained the ability to function on a basic level" when
>he left New Avalon, but he was looking for solitude, that "Exile frame
>of mind" as it's been referred to elsewhere. (Interesting, that he
>often looks for comfort by looking back to the darkest time of his
>life, but there it is.)
>
>Perhaps when he realized that he should have taken Wolfgang
>with him, that became the moment when his thoughts began to once again
>turn outward, and back to all the other things that still
>mattered to him?

That sounds plausable to me. After all, at one's lowest point, there's nowhere to go but up, and if you can simulate the experience WITHOUT being shot at by every bounty hunter in the quadrant, well hey, you've already got one up on the original experience.

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