"Or when the people who put me together didn't think I'd be running for two hundred years." Nick points a finger at his head with a metal finger. "Yeah, I've seen what happens to people when they start to age. Heh. And I have to wonder if people think the same when they see this old mug walking around The Nexus."

Treating someone just because they come from another planet with awe, suspicion, and fear is something Nick is all too familiar with.


"But would you know her if you saw her?" Nick asks. "Because if you don't that might be a problem, and you may have passed her without even realizing it."