The window for apology was rapidly being boarded shut, if it had ever been open in the first place, and Terra still hadn't the nerve to actually say anything about it. It was easier to just go with whichever way Lina wanted to direct the conversation.

"He talked to me when I first arrived. Over the network," she said with a shrug. It was hardly a story. "After that was... just chance."

Absurdly frequent chance, but...