I don't know. She reminds me of... [A frown.] A lot of the way she acts is pretty familiar. Like some of the rulers I've seen in Faerie. They usually have their own reasons for doing things, and they don't always exactly share that up front.

[It's Faerie bullshit is what it is, and Quentin is so familiar with Faerie bullshit. If it weren't SPACE it'd feel like home. And "helping people" sounds good and he wants to help, but he's new enough that he's not sure whether or not Astoria might have other reasons for sending them here.]

Yeah, maybe. There's definitely more to the ship, right? But all the doors are stuck shut. ...and they're not the sort of locks Toby taught me how to pick.