Gilded Bay it smells like the beach that time you wouldn't let us swim.

Liffey nodded her agreement to his recommendation. She had no particular thoughts about what they could bring back for their elder kids. She had personally never grown any attachments to trinkets or objects here on the ground. She loved only the stars, but could never delude herself into thinking she truly possessed them. And she and Rannoch had already given those to their kids in as close a way as they could. So what was there then?

"What do you think of promoting them?" Liffey asked, a bit timidly as she recollected how poorly their last conversation regarding ranks had gone. Eager to avoid to any unpleasantness, she moved to address the elephant in the room first. "I know you'll have to discuss it with the others first, but I imagine there's a good argument there for them having earned at least a little bump after this?"