"Awwwww."

"The travel's the only inconvenient part and I already did that."

"Where're you gonna sleep?"

"Dunno. Maybe on the roof some place where that's allowed. Stars are neat."

"Do you not have stars at home?"

"Nah, Valinor's bright all the time. Sometimes gold and sometimes silver."

"Oooh."

"It's all right but I like stars. They're more aesthetically appropriate. Places we can someday go, and all."

"Something something ad astra."

"Yeah."

"I'mma try and sleep after I get my next. Thing."

"Six and a half minutes," says Rete.

"Okay." He sings.

She accepts something green from a bot under her helmet. She dozes off.

He works on artifact blocks.

She sleeps for ten hours, then stirs as much as she reasonably can. There is the sound of a yawn. "Hiiiii."

A bot nips in with more green stuff and breakfast for her.

He finishes his block. It takes another hour. "Hi. Meant to ask - you said you usually take your helmet off to sleep, it's not going to hurt your neck or anything?"

"My neck's fine."

"Okay. I'm doing a memory necklace, it was originally for Dragon before, uh, we learned she has a Thinker power so it won't work for her, do you know anyone who'd want it?"

"Lots of people probably." Yawn. Nom nom breakfast. "Somebody who's got a different Thinker power'd probably get the most use."

"I can put up an ad." He starts working on that.

"Make sure they're not like evil or something."

"That had not occurred to me and I was going to offer it to Jack Slash."

"He'd probably pay good money."

"Well, then, that settles it.

- I could probably do artifacts with safeties, come to think of it, but it'd be a little dubious."

"Dubious?"