["Pivotal" he says. It brings a sneer to her lip, makes her fingers tighten on her arm. In all honesty, she had not listened as well as she perhaps ought to have- or rather, her mind had not been clear enough to truly register it. She is far more occupied with the existence of space, of other worlds, of planets-]

If the people who brought us here they may address me themselves. I will not grovel amongst those equally ignorant in the hopes of being given their charity.