Now it was Lacaille's turn to be surprised, and the jar to her thought processes made her stumble a bit again. "Me? I'm space-born, so I'm not technically a citizen of anywhere, but the Messier's usually out in the Kuiper belt, so I guess you could say I'm 'from' there."

She tilted her head slightly and gave him a curious look. "You don't know about the rest of colonized space? I didn't think Earth was that isolated. Unless... but that's--not impossible, I guess, but not likely..." She trailed off, but she was starting to put two and two together.