[I didn't meet him, the reassembling peal left him in Rêverie before they found me and the rest of the welcoming committee, but apparently his name is Ripper and he is a rock star and Glass says he's a you.]

[Is that so,] he sighs.

[It is so! And most of the peal has now seen him naked, which has to have been weird. Shell Bell's doors are not as good a mechanism for getting places as Jane is when Jane is available.]

[...Noted.]

[Yeah, they walked in on Alice too. Anyway. How have you been in your not-a-rock-star-ness?]

[Continuing not to be a rock star, thank goodness.]

[Lucky you. I hope it was not a terrible disruption that I did not wind up installing a Jarvis station before I left.]

[I managed. But if you do still plan on installing such a station, I'd be happy to move there.]

[I will once it's clear how to fold it into eventual Hegemony transfer, public relations, et cetera, I don't want to screw things up. Glass has a Jarvis now too.]

[Best talk to the admiral about that. I'm sure you can work it out between you.]

[Sue being the admiral? I hope they haven't retroactively stripped my rank.]

[There are plenty of admirals. I've just taken to calling him that.]

[Okay. Yeah, we have a lot of figuring to do.]

[Best of luck.]