⧼ His eyes go a little bit distant once the attachment goes through. An elbow hits the couch arm and his fingers come to settle absently on his lips, that lost and distracted countenance of a guy intently reading.

Suddenly wishing maybe he had a little less tequila so he was firing on a few more cylinders right now. ⧽

So, moon gate. Pluto gate.

⧼ It feels like looking at a spider web from the wrong angle, just shy of two dimensional. Seeing strands and knowing they connect but without being able to make out the full pattern in complete detail from an aerial view.

A little distractedly, and spoken with the side of his finger still resting on his mouth: ⧽

Why shift from pluto to the trench? Because Ball found the gate for him and he didn't need to spend any more time on it? Because he couldn't get to it without... whatever was down there? Or because something in the trench was suddenly time sensitive?

⧼ Which is a tangent deviating from Nate's original moon theory topic, sorry man, that's what drunk brain does to him.

Another prime example-- ⧽

Maybe he found fuckin' Cthulhu down there and it spooked him all the way to the moon.