Time, perhaps, will do what is necessary, she thinks. She is willing to wait and see what might happen, at least for now.

(She has nowhere else that she needs to be right now. Dale is in Seattle, and even if he were not there is an understanding between them when it comes to matters involving Milliways and the worlds beyond.)

She opens the anthology of poetry that she had been given here and pages through it, searching for one verse in particular.