That's the kicker, isn't it? Entertainment never goes out of style. If your version of humanity is anything like mine, anyway.

[She flashes him a wry smile. There are twenty-nine planets in the Lattice, she's been around the block a time or two. There are plenty of differences across languages, cultures, religions. Even attitudes towards culgenics. Yet, independently of each other, well before the construction of the Lattice, each of them had some form of theatre. Each had music, each had poetry.

Each, also, had war.

Makes a body think.]

So do I get to ask you questions about why you're taking your dinner on a rooftop while wearing a mask?