[Any more and V might do the same, if he isn’t already considered something of an anti-social creature as it stands. A party like this, all bright lights and drunken expectations, were too much for him — he’d much prefer corner to himself, a good book, and a long stretch of silence.]

Heaven forbid that should ever be the case.

[He says wryly, in response to Abel becoming a native where parties on the regular were the norm.]

A Navigator, though? I must admit that sounds very fantastical, in a sort of romanticized way. Are the constellations seen from Earth that much different from the ones you know by heart? Or is it really a matter of being out of practice?