"Huh. Some time travel. A couple friends came back from the dead recently, though one of them was a duplicate from another timeline split off from ours who never actually died, so I guess he doesn't count. One of my best friends' boss went completely insane and tried to murder half of everybody. Pharma helped with that one--he didn't die at Delphi, apparently. First Aid shot him to death afterward, I think. And I've been hauling my tailpipe all over the stupid galaxy looking for Drift, who left right after an insane serial killer was let loose on the ship and took out four people before we shoved him back into his cell, jettisoned it into space, and blew it up. I'm summarizing a lot, here."

Ratchet looks over at York, eyeing him askance, though the slant of his mouth is wry.

"Whatever else things are on The Lost Light, and there are a kaleidoscope of less-than-flattering terms I could use, it's never boring."