Is it? Sustainable? They've built a fort, but not a city. What walls could survive the climate? Not stone, certainly. Any life here is one of subsistence. Mere survival. Not the start of a civilization. Even if they weren't mere miles from that mass grave.

[ she has not gone to see the crater left behind by the adamant for herself yet. she's keenly aware that she lacks the necessary skills and knowledge to make anything of the ship itself. she'll need to find someone, first, who is. after that, she can begin to consider what conclusions they can help her draw.

she surveys vidar more thoughtfully, then. he'd spoken of earth like it was familiar. she doesn't bother to mask the subject change — men seldom react poorly to anything that gives them an opportunity to talk about themselves, no matter how hamfisted, and she is too beside her nerves to be as graceful as she might want to be. ]

You're from Earth as well, then? Have you ever left it before?