"Not really a detour," she says thoughtfully, "so much as ... a chance to travel. I don't recall if we ever discussed it, but I'd lived my whole life in Whitestone before the Serena Eterna. I don't think I'd ever want to leave there for good, but getting to see new places? I find I enjoy that."

A pause. "Though more, I grant you, when they're places I intended to visit."