"I'd miss you too," Jim says, and isn't that a weird thing too? Not that he'd miss Hunter, but that now he's got someone to miss. For most of his life, he's had no one waiting for his return. And no one he particularly wanted to go back to.

"I'll try to keep in touch on a regular basis. Not just special occasions. I won't have to hog the subspace transmitter for personal messages if it's by PINpoint."