"Gale's more of a pragmatist than the rest of us. He'd take it in stride, I'm sure." And he had more iron control over himself than the rest of them. It was difficult to think that there was anything they couldn't do with him and Serph on their side. "And apart from this being a prison, it's still better than where I came from. People can go out into the sunlight without contracting Cuvier syndrome and turning into stone for one thing." It was a definite upside in her mind, even if she'd been immune to the syndrome anyway.

"I suppose that's true," she said consideringly. Hadn't the offer of Nirvana been too good to be true? Even if they'd had to take out all of the other tribes to do it, and see the Junkyard destroyed. "There's just a lot of things I want to see."