[The repercussions are really not worth giving it her best shot. China doesn't bother clarifying that, though, only smiles. He's alive, isn't he? That says enough.] Of course it doesn't.

[But the gun is down, even if China judges that's at least half due to his shaking hands rather than any real desire to cease hostilities. Still, it's the results that matter. Look, they're being positively civil now. Isn't that nice. She drops her hands to her sides, careless, shifts her posture to something calculatedly nonchalant.]

Not quite. One world can contain many planets. But it's certainly as foreign, and as difficult to traverse.

I'm sure you have several appropriately skeptical questions on the topic.