It took him a moment to register the scar. Ouch. Nasty bit of work, that one. It looked like the newcomer had kept his eye, though Slick couldn't tell how. That was a bad burn there. Looked old enough that it didn't need medical attention, but still new enough to make a nuisance of itself.

He wasn't gonna ask. Getting your face set on fire wasn't something you just regaled strangers about. "That's where I got dumped on-planet. Decent backwater place, if you don't count the buggers trying to kill us all." Which was sort of a constant, as far as he was concerned.

But then again, this place kept dumping kids into the middle of this mess, didn't it? This one looked somewhere around Lily's age.

"So you're from here? This planet, I mean."