Ironically, there'll be more drama going on back home in that department than there will on Garrick's end. He'll just want to get back home as soon as possible, and be reluctant about getting involved with any other woman. (Such a woman would have to know what she was getting into - having to contend as a sister-wife, exposure to perilous situations, etc - and still want to commit 110%.) Back home, on the other hand, the ladies will all wind up without the man they love... and that's gonna be a lot of hurt getting passed around. Eventually, they'll all form a hard-core of interdependence... But leading up to that, Washu will take note:
"Garrick is a strange person. Despite all his sorrow he has a lot of love to give. The only thing he really wants is for everyone around him to be happy, because that is his happiness as well. He's seen enough sadness in his life. He's had more than his fair share of hurt. But it made him strong in ways we are not. Because of that, he became a pillar of strength in our home. He knew it, too, and he pushed us to rely on ourselves and each other. But we didn't really catch on. We would always look to him - it was so hard not to at times because he has such a strong presence. But we never really realized that until he was taken from us."
As for the questions about the C-Space....
"Garrick is a strange person. Despite all his sorrow he has a lot of love to give. The only thing he really wants is for everyone around him to be happy, because that is his happiness as well. He's seen enough sadness in his life. He's had more than his fair share of hurt. But it made him strong in ways we are not. Because of that, he became a pillar of strength in our home. He knew it, too, and he pushed us to rely on ourselves and each other. But we didn't really catch on. We would always look to him - it was so hard not to at times because he has such a strong presence. But we never really realized that until he was taken from us."
As for the questions about the C-Space....
- Everyone was out watching the duel when Clay arrives. More will become clear later.
- No, because the C-Space is anchored to the C-Pod on Garrick's wrist. Where he goes, it goes. (How tightly anchored is it? If he wanders more than ten kilometers from home his door disappears and he has to re-affix it.)
- Garrick trusts Washu with a sort of administrative access to his C-Space - mostly so that she can mess around with its more technical aspects that would elude Garrick. However, that access depends on the whether or not she can get at it. See above. (We will find at later part that Washu was extremely thorough with her design of the user interface -
there's not much that Garrick won't be able to handle on his own.
However, if he ever needed to adjust the total available volume for his
C-Space... then that'd need Washu to mess with it.)