It was better in nearly every way. [Her voice has the quality of a sigh, sadness rippling through it.] Just a normal city, where you could live a relatively normal life - you had a flat, and a job if you wanted one, and you could go to school and get a pet and make friends...

[She always makes herself sound so strange when she talks this excitedly about the mundane aspects of Eudio, but she can't help it. The experience really was amazing for her, life- (and self-) changing.]

... there was so much freedom. Here, there's almost none, and there'll be less when we're in space.