It seems more sad to us because it feels like 15 years that she’s been estranged from her daughter…but to them it’s really probably less than 15 weeks (notwithstanding that they’ve celebrated over a dozen birthdays and Christmases – those happen far more often in the Future, what with each planet with a different year length insisting its calendar is the “right” one) … so, still sad, just not as much so.
It seems more sad to us because it feels like 15 years that she’s been estranged from her daughter…but to them it’s really probably less than 15 weeks (notwithstanding that they’ve celebrated over a dozen birthdays and Christmases – those happen far more often in the Future, what with each planet with a different year length insisting its calendar is the “right” one) … so, still sad, just not as much so.