Looking at the rarely seen, slightly subdued and "melancholic" Tiandao on the screen,
some Dimensional Audience members instantly guessed the reason.
Obviously, Caroline was about to arrive, so he was a little nervous.
After all, across both seasons of Stellaris, the one and only person who could truly keep Tiandao in line—and influence his thoughts to a certain extent—was Caroline.
Though the Dimensional Audience did not know what that meteor meant, they could still guess why Tiandao was nervous, and who had caused that nervousness.
They had skipped the process and directly deduced the correct final answer.
And Tiandao's nervousness was not without reason.
No matter how nicely he had put it before, and no matter what reasons lay behind what he had done,
he had, to a certain extent, forcibly interfered with and altered the life trajectory that had originally belonged to Caroline.
When one forcibly imposed their own will upon another person—especially someone they cared about—
even someone like Tiandao felt somewhat guilty.
As for how he should treat his reunion with Caroline not long from now—what manner he should take, what tone he should use—he had never figured that out.
Though he was not at all worried that Caroline would get angry over it, or even ignore him.
Given Caroline's personality, even if she really wanted to settle the score with him,
she would only take her intelligent mechanical tablet and knock him on the head, neither too lightly nor too heavily—a small punishment as a warning.
After all, "Don't mess around" were already the words she had said to Tiandao the most often, and the harshest words he had heard from her in all their time together.
But knowing something was one thing; truly facing it was another.
For some reason, after watching that meteor completely