“I’ll be the judge of what I find impressive,” Reyes said dryly, amused. “What you’d described before, that certainly sounded impressive.”

He stood up from his nonchalant sprawl, finally, and stretched until his spine popped. He could feel that restless itch to get moving again. It had been difficult, going from having an entire planet and galaxy at the top of his fingertips, to being trapped in this small slice of a safe zone. Step outside the explored zones and you risked death, without even an environmental suit or blaster or shuttle to help you out.

“Well, I suppose I should get on that whole practical survival thing, as you’ve pointed out. It was good meeting you, Nida Nomura. Probably keep seeing you around. Not like we’ve got that many places to go, eh?” A wry smile.