Eiko peeks in from time to time, because that's what she does. This is one of those times.

So one short, busty woman of an enigmatic racial combination, wearing a mechanic's coverall and a pair of goggles perched on her forehead considers this.

"You don't learn. You find it. Hope is a devious thing. Sometimes it hides, but it never goes away." She gestures. "Someone where I used to come from caused a ...time-quake, I guess is the best way to put it. And I was in the Nexus at the time, and if I had gone back, I would have stopped existing and become someone else. I didn't want to do that. I stayed here. I lost my world." She pauses to let this sink in.

"And then I found friends, a love I never expected, a new world. I found hope again. It's not easy! I don't want you to think it's what I'm saying. It's hard. But it's worth doing, and sometimes you find more than just hope when you go looking at it. You find everything."

"And that said, how bad is it? I might have some ideas to fix it."

Because, again, Eiko Takashima, refiner of the PINpoint, non-evil mad scientist... that's what she does.