"Absolutely not," they say, and that's the thing that feels more certain than anything else so far. "We're not throwing away who we used to be. We can't, you know—we can't be Novas all the time. But..."

They puff some air out through their nose. Hadn't expected to get into this right now, but whatever, they trust Natalia already. "I can't change the fact that Hope Carassia is a bastard, or anything else about them. But I can actually write Nova Pandora's story. And you can write Nova Neos'."