She stretched her neck, muscles rippling for an instant. "That's hard to tell, because it's so easy to lose track of time here. I was trying to keep count of how many times I slept, and I was at around one hundred forty days, I think.

"I was podpopped just before Gondepetil, and I was awake for XaXing and that damned clock, and Galilee; I was injured at Lirath. There were two podpops while I was here, not counting Visitation Day. I was sent off at some point after that, I'm not quite sure when. Not long, I think."

She grins. "And now I'm back, in outer space."