"I'm sure one of the shifts today was in the greenhouse. maybe we should get some manure," Allelujah replied, a slight sharpness to his grin that hadn't been there before. At least Badou had stopped trying to use Allelujah's shoulder as a bludgeon. He couldn't help but feel a little oddly uncomfortably when badou was so close.

"I don't think there's anything like that where I'm from," Allelujah admitted. "No magic or things that aren't human. Mostly." Just people like him. "We have robots?" he offered because some people seemed to find those something exceptional when for him they were every day things.

And all of this talk of sex was... were people really this obsessed about it? It had never really... if people on the Ptolemaios were having sex, then they never mentioned it.