"I mean, I didn't lose sleep over it. Just liked having a plan."

"I read in history class how utterly freaked out and stressed a lot of people were by it. Same history class as the prophecy video, actually, that was not a fun class."

"I mean, people are easy to freak out. Making the world safe isn't enough to nave them not panic about it."

"Yeah." It's really nice that he's never not hugging her. Hugs are such a good.

They are.

"I really hope I'm not some kind of unwilling harbinger."

"It'd be worth it."

"Well, yes, granted."

"As long as I have you we can weather the world ending, if it insists on doing so."

"...So as long as it waits to end until we've got aging cured, we're probably fine."

"Yeah. And hopefully some other recruits for the starship plan."

"I'm pretty sure my friends'll come but I think you probably meant more than that."

"If we want it to be a self-sustaining population we need ten thousand or so."

"Yeah. I'm not sure how hard recruiting people is likely to be..."

"Seems like some people should find it appealing. And there's just so many humans out there."

"True. Of course, going public enough to recruit like that could have its own complications if there are in fact Avari who hate us running around."

"I should ask Nelyo to poke around, try finding them."

"Possibly it would help to ask Daphne's mom where exactly she had the relevant one-night-stand."

"Going to look for Elves might be a really bad idea. If they in fact want us dead."

"Well, true. But they don't have any reason to want Daphne dead. Not as far as they know, anyway."

"Gonna have her be our interface with the possible-Elves?"

"It makes sense!"

"I'll tell Nelyo to start looking. Conversations in Thindarin or Quenya are probably the first thing to look for..."

"Thindarin?"

"What the locals spoke, in Endore. Though the Avari wouldn't even speak that, so I don't know if screening for that will catch them. Also they may not use technology yet."