We never figured that one out. We had no choice in where we ended up, just left one system and wobbled our way into another. But the light always followed us. And then, a year later, so did the Hunger. So in a sense, we were the harbingers of their destruction, and most of the time there was nothing we could do to stop it.

[Her voice is... careful. She'd long ago decided not to let it get to her, to stand strong against their fate and not resent. There's little point in being sad about it. Just as Taako said, they were talking dust.

It's just that there'd been so many.]