"Oh, so it's what you call a bunch of stars. Cool," Nora says, missing the point a little, but at least Loken doesn't have to teach Astrophysics 101 in the gym. "You're from one of those places that has a lot of planets."

She's iffy on this galactic war of his, but ten thousand years of darkness and slavery doesn't sound super-great, either, so she just leaves that alone.