"My world is pretty different from yours. We have faster-than-light travel, instead of wormholes, and it's earlier, and there are other different technologies - that's why Linyabel is taking apart the PADD. So she can bring home books that are supposed to work with PADDS and read them at home."

"Ooooh. Next time I play pirates I want to play faster than light pirates."

Isabella winces.

"What?"

"Nothing, really. I ran into some people who were unpleasant but weren't pirates, once."