[Servants is an outdated word to her, but that doesn't stop Ari from picturing the mid-levels of Cardalek Tower, where the staff who looked after the Company families were housed. She'd never paid much to them attention as a child, but she recalls enough for the mental image of them being filled with an enormous winged lizard to be startling.]

You must be fearless, to get on the back of a great lizard like that. A dragon. [Would she try it, given the opportunity? She likes to thinks she would, but she's never even ridden a horse.]

The stars aren't there to be conquered. They're there to be explored. When my people first went out, we found many empty worlds to settle. [Which had led ultimately to one of the worst wars they had ever seen, but there's no need to complicate things. It was a long time ago.]

Did your ships ever do that? Go out in search of new lands? I do think that exploration is our birthright; it's in our nature - but tell me, what were you told, before you agreed to come here? [She's hoping that he wasn't misled, or she might have to revise her opinion of this whole operation.]