"Yeah? Gonna miss the best thing Beta has to offer?" It's a joke -- he won't encourage the other man to go, knowing David as he does. That would be too much for him, he's reasonably certain. "I didn't even know we had museums. Well, other than the one about the founding of Beta Colony. We sit through that exhibit during school."

Ivan can't simply hold someone like this without moving -- the thumb of his hand rubbing circles into David's hip, over fabric. Idly, and mostly unconscious of the fact he's doing it at all.