[Ari follows close after him, perfectly happy with taking the stairs. When they reach that wide open promenade, she stops for a moment, just to take a good look. The scale of her little mapping project was clearly wrong. She's still clutching her slate computer in one hand, but now she slips it back into its pouch. There will be time for revisions and additions later.]

You said infinite?!

I suppose if this is a simulation, there's a way to program that. You just loop it. [Infinities are a tricky thing to deal with in cartography, but she'll manage it. She turns to him again.]

I've never been on a ship like this before. On the sea. Do you know if the real ones are ever this... large? Infinities aside, I mean. The general scale. [There were large starships, of course, but they had no wasted space. Not even the high-end passenger liners with big cabins.]