"Y'forgot the info-sharin' part," Tess says pleasantly to Sheeana. She's not going to be blunt about it—but if there's anything like core pillars to what the grasshoppers do, anarcho-communist charity is only one of them. To be an explorer, in ways no twentieth-century person could have considered—that's the other.

"And Katara's got it right," she says more directly to Duncan. And in more than one says. A nudge young, maybe, but...