[ Survival....she sure has heard that word bandied about a lot in recent days. Survival for her had always been a matter of surviving her next fight, not being forced to eat brown gravy day after day or wearing hand-me-downs pulled off the latest corpse. But it seems like a lot of things are going to be different now that she's here.

Might as well (try and) look on the bright side. ]

So you must know a lot about this kind of thing then. [ Dubious definition of the word 'thing.' ] I was on a ship before this too, but it wasn't anything like what we're going through now.

[ No acid rain, for one. ]