Nothing wrong with cranky; military men had been turning to cranky to bolster their arguments since the days of the first organized force to defend the first city. Roger nodded. "Not so very different from the way things tend to shake out at home," he said. "We should be able to manage. Some of us've found the restrooms and the mess hall, and a miniature crew quarters. It's a base, if nothing else."

And then she commented on the Chamber; Roger turned to look at it a little more closely. "Sort of resembles things you'd see in museums, back home," he said. She seemed to recognize it, after all.. "Temples and such. Doesn't... doesn't feel like one, though, if you catch my meaning. What's it for, if I can ask?"