That's comforting enough, the idea that even if this is the shittiest hike she's been on since the last time she ended up hiking thrive the forest, it's not the only thing they have before them. At least he can say there are less empty parts to the planet; what they see right now is what they'd get if they were on Earth, no matter where they headed.

"Okay," she corrects herself. "Not left. But you've seen the world. Or the...the galaxy, or whatever."

He's been places completely different from where he's from, even if that's where he came back to. She's envious, in a distant sort of way. (It might not be justifiable, now that she's on another planet, but she always daydreamed about going to faraway places on Earth.)