[ She nods like she understands--which...well, she can conceptualize some of it if she thinks about the distance between mountains and how high the moons in the sky appear, but she really has no frame of reference for space travel. So there's a moment of silence as she's trying to absorb it all. ]

Every star is too far away to travel...

[ That is really what gets her. ]

By any means of travel?

[ Someone can reach every corner of her star if they really tried.

But he does seem to get what she is getting at, regarding he preferences for paths less travelled. ]

Yes, that's exactly why.

[ She nods very strongly this time. ]

I was the same way when I saw a forest of trees for the first time. They were much larger than I anticipated and the texture of their bark was just amazing. But every time I walked through the Shroud I tried to take a different path, find new types of trees, see what lived in them...if I just flew over it each time I would have never seen the way that a spider will make a web between boughs or how there are lilies that glow blue in the evening. Sometimes walking is nice.