[Ana was never a huge sci-fi buff, she's more into the classics of British literature, but even she knows enough about science and pop culture to know that the news of life on other planets would be a humongous deal back home]

Settled? So you guys originally came from somewhere else?

[as sure as she is that this is nowhere near Earth. but one reason to panic at a time]

It's--it's huge. You can look on it and look into forever. It smells like saltwater and seaweed. And it's a lot colder than you'd think, at least where I live. Not exactly bikini weather.