"I'm sure it will," he assured her, genuinely meaning it. "You've already been a ton of help with that journal of yours! It was really useful, too." Avid reader that he could be at times, Ven had found it a lot easier than having some of those things explained to him directly.

"So is that what you do? Go through the information we know about this world?" He knew what an observatory was, sure -- it had been one of the first places he'd checked out, back after his arrival -- but that didn't seem to be its primary purpose from what he had seen.