Ezra settled a little, tired and not wholly satisfied, but he nodded all the same. "Right. I don't think we'll have to dive into it anyway. Everyone's going to have to get used to the merge. And with the Armaiti God fuckin' knows where, might be a good time to just get settled in."

He looked at Duncan sharply, then down again, sheepish. He'd forgotten. "Fair enough," he mumbled. "Can't say I haven't met my share of people who've gone there. You holding up with that okay?"