"If you say so," Laurie says with a light snort. She doesn't think they're bad at improvisation, the breadth of disasters in their last world --it needs a name now-- considered, but it feels like it may be more reactionary than smoothly thinking on their feet.

She's the one who'd offered the word, though, so what is she fussing over it for?

"Alright, so... We make a list of the big questions, and we see what we can dig out of people once we're loose. If we're set loose." But, actually... "They're probably monitoring us now, huh?"