The duties we each pursued were a little different from each other, but we saw each other often enough. But recently... not so much at all, no.
[he remembers the other man starting to work - helping him to familiarise himself with the facilities, though their acquaintance goes back a little longer than that]
I had thought - maybe hoped - that perhaps he might be wanting to focus his efforts elsewhere.
[he wouldn't blame Venom for wanting to rebuild somewhere else than the wreck of Olympia...]
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[he remembers the other man starting to work - helping him to familiarise himself with the facilities, though their acquaintance goes back a little longer than that]
I had thought - maybe hoped - that perhaps he might be wanting to focus his efforts elsewhere.
[he wouldn't blame Venom for wanting to rebuild somewhere else than the wreck of Olympia...]