Howard gets the impression that maybe Daja doesn't see what he's talking about, but he's not about to spend the whole morning explaining marketing to her. He never really paid much attention when his mom talked about her work anyway, and his own trades, both here and back home, ran through word-of-mouth more than anything else.

"Every other morning. I read in a book somewhere that you're not supposed to work out consecutively or your body doesn't get a chance to build up muscle. What about you? I haven't run into you none here, but I may just be on a different schedule."