"Yeah," Lone replies. "Till I got here though, I guessed my Earth was the only Earth that there was. Think most others feel the same way though."

She goes back to leaning against the tree, but seems to be finding it hard not to sneak peeks at the blue-within-blue eyes. Now that she knows it's nothing serious, it's rather pretty.

"Not long at all. Most of you were off the ship at the time, doing something. Never got the story straight on that one, but it doesn't matter much. I'm Lone by the way, I keep forgetting to tell people my name."