At least what he was working on before they got to port and everything went wrong is still safely tucked away in his cabin. His cabin, which now looks out onto the empty cosmos in all directions from its glass walls. His cabin, where he's set up grow lights on timers and reassured his plants that they'll be okay and the mountain was never real anyway. The mountain was never real anyway. It doesn't matter that he never got to see fall.

But the problem with going to port and then everything going wrong is that the present he was working on for Jedao isn't done. It's half-done, but...

It took him so long to get John's presents figured out, he wants to do something special on the right date for once. Which is why he is knocking on Jedao's door with a small, wrapped package, trying not to look as upset as he feels.