"On the run? You mean from the law?" she asks without thinking, forgetting for the moment how sensitive the subject is. Sorry, Han: now you've shared the story Bryn feels kind of invested in it. Besides, whatever happened it sounds as though things shouldn't have turned out as they did. Just because she can't change it, that doesn't stop her frowning.

"...Wouldn't someone notice if records were altered?" But then the planet he's talking about sounds more like Earth than Venus. Maybe an old world has more loopholes, more ways to hide from the system, not like her colony of a few million people under a Warmind's watchful eye. Where she's from, people who want to hide flee to the jungle, or try to get to Earth. As far as she knows it rarely works.