Kenna, in turn, paid absolute rapt attention to Konoka's words, laughing or sighing in sympathy as the tone required, and stopped still when Konoka became distracted by the field-of-void.

She briefly reached out for the girl, but thankfully Konoka steadied herself, and Kenna in turn was relieved. "That's a real prize, there! It's good you learned it, then."

Kenna walked around to the rock outcropping Konoka had settled on, nodding her approval.

"There's more kinds of life in the million-homeworlds that don't look like me, than those that do. I'm a Kenaran, and a space-farer before I became a voidtraveler at that, but we tend to be called 'human' most everywhere else. Though I know what beauty is, beyond that."

She offered a small smile. "Still, if I have made you uncomfortable for staring, I apologize. I have been thinking forward and all."

Even if she'd kept her hands to herself, that didn't mean there couldn't be anything wrong.