"I would have sworn to the Nirai, had they accepted me. I thought about the nature of the oath."

Sasha walks toward the common room, hands in her jacket pockets. She knows where Reshad is walking--she can't help but monitor--but she forces herself to move at an even pace, without checking the corridors or asking the grid to map the ship's inhabitants, as if everything here is safe.

[I'm going to assume we'll meet Ione, and maybe Sulen, in the common room.]