"Sensible."

"It's a lovely moon town."

"Thank you! It was fun to build!"

"I'm glad you enjoyed it."

"Maybe I'll find a planet with rings next."

"Maybe there's even one in your system!"

"We'll see!"

"If there's not it will take a long while to get there, if you top out at 'an hour to the moon'."

"I probably don't."

"I wonder if you can go faster than light!"

"Maybe!"

"Ainur can communicate faster than light but not move faster. One of my friends is working on ships that can."

"Why is it light specifically that's so hard to beat?"

"Complicated physics, do you want me to explain?"

"You've got something of a gift for making complicated things sound interesting!"

So she explains lightspeed physics.

"It baffles me how you could manage to learn all this. I suppose making friends with gods would help."

"Those and science experiments!"

"I just don't know what you could possibly do to the world to find out that light does that, not unless you were using magic somehow!"

"It involved a lot of math and some very exact clocks."

Giggle. "You have such a way of putting things."

"Thank you."

He beams fondly at her.

"I wish I had copies of my books here. Well, I suppose even if I did I'd have to translate them if I wanted anyone to read them. I put things in ways a lot in my books."

Giggle. "What sorts of things have you written books about?"