Morgan, who might be from Jupiter but tends to hope she isn't, huffs her own sort-of-laugh. "A..." not a year. "...few years ago, I'd have said the same thing."
She glances at the floating question of 'what changed?' or maybe 'you've been here a year?', two different ways to take Renee's words. But she's also thinking about TranStar collapsing, and how Kasma Corp's sunk cost in stealing TranStar's ideas might drag them down like a planet caught in the gravity of a dying star. The enormous power vaccuum that would be left behind in their wake. The fact that she has no way of telling how long it's been since Talos-I, not really, unless it's by counting crows-feet in the mirror.
(She feels caught in a well of gravity herself. She has to make herself keep standing, the way she's made herself keep standing a thousand times since she first woke up in this town, psychically blind and deaf and with all her cuts and burns long-healed.)
"Is Goddard new on the scene? Did it replace TranStar?"
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She glances at the floating question of 'what changed?' or maybe 'you've been here a year?', two different ways to take Renee's words. But she's also thinking about TranStar collapsing, and how Kasma Corp's sunk cost in stealing TranStar's ideas might drag them down like a planet caught in the gravity of a dying star. The enormous power vaccuum that would be left behind in their wake. The fact that she has no way of telling how long it's been since Talos-I, not really, unless it's by counting crows-feet in the mirror.
(She feels caught in a well of gravity herself. She has to make herself keep standing, the way she's made herself keep standing a thousand times since she first woke up in this town, psychically blind and deaf and with all her cuts and burns long-healed.)
"Is Goddard new on the scene? Did it replace TranStar?"