There would be something you could do for sure! On the real frontier, they need everyone they can get. [After a pause.] Not that either of us are going to be sent to a frontier planet. This is as close as it gets.

If there were ghosts wouldn't you have seen them by now? That means there probably aren't.

[She's trying to be reassuring, but she's unsure if it'll help. Then she looks faintly troubled, faintly embarrassed when he speaks about Skulduggery. The answer is yes, but also... not?

It's probably one of those things where you had to be there at the time to see the humor.]

We speculated on it. It was... just a joke we had. [A way to poke fun at their captor. Nobunaga had always thought Ari gave him too much power in head. Ridiculous ideas like that helped, somehow.]