Satya wishes she could share their enthusiasm. Oh, she's been dutifully working this whole time, but ever since that fateful discussion between the two of them? She no longer seems terribly engaged during the work. She concentrates on the mechanics of the work, the numbers, the cold hard facts.

It prevents the guilt and uncertainty, at least for a time. And she's every bit as likely to spend the wee hours of the morning -- or what passes for morning in space -- awake and working right alongside Micah.