Saturday makes a face. "I bet they taste gross. Anyway, all that fuckin' fuss an' bother an' I didn't even get to find out what was so important they had to send a team right away. Whatever it was, the nerds were happy. At least someone was."

She flops back against the wall of her bunk, groaning.

"God, I never thought I'd be glad to see this place again. But I'll take cold corridors and the smilebot over toad sand hell any day."