"Not so tame. Didn't have aliens, back home. Learnin' to work with others on engines and such was hard at first, partly 'cause we all had a different way of goin' about it, and what's right in one 'verse ain't necessarily right in another. Got it all figured pretty good now, though." Most of it. There were still times when she cringed as someone did something she thought of as incorrect, but it didn't happen nearly as often as it had when she'd first popped.

"At the end of the day, he's still your little brother, and there ain't no use in bein' anythin' but proud of him."