She'll hear fragments, soon enough, but Ari Tayrey is still fragile. Better for her too that the full story can wait. Not that it ultimately matters - they're free! And if one is being cynical, what's one more death to those people who signed up to kill each other in a sport tournament and made light of it? They'll have to do more reckoning with their humanity than she will, one way or another.

The young lieutenant shakes her head at Fever's words. 'I never lived on the ground,' she says quietly. This place is better than the nightmare ship by every measure possible, but it's all alien. Like someplace she'd stop over at for a few days before taking to the skies again. 'But it's very welcome, yes.'

She hesitates. 'I ate a little. I brought the fruit.' Fair contract, Tradeliners don't take handouts. 'I'm not all that hungry, if I'm honest. Want to take a walk?'