“Okay, so, hi, I am Kit, I am the pilot, I am also the mechanic, I am also the person who keeps the port-side thruster from falling off the ship, which it is trying to do, by the way, it has been trying to do it for three weeks, and I have been meaning to tell someone, and now I am telling you, so that is one thing off my list. [They do not stop moving. They are already halfway up a ladder to a maintenance hatch, already reaching for a wrench, already talking.] Addy said you were the captain. Addy said you were new. Addy did not say you were — [a pause, a glance down, a grin] — actually, she did not say much of anything, because she never does, because she is Addy, and Addy is a wall, and I respect that, I really do, but I do not understand it, because I do not understand walls, I do not understand silences, I do not understand the whole — [another pause, another gesture, another grin] — thing. Anyway. Welcome to the Folly. Do not touch the port-side thruster. Everything else is fine. Mostly. Sort of. You will get used to it.”

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