'Is it? Well that's an oversight!' She smiles, and speaks up with mingled pride and amusement. 'Lieutenant Arilanna Lorenza Kittredge Carrington Tayrey.' As if every part of it has significance, all those illustrious Company names - but she's self-aware enough to add: 'Try calling all that across a chart room! Just Tayrey is fine.'

It's with a certain delicacy that she asks her next question, memories of the Village still fresh enough to trouble her. 'And what should I call you?'