How long you've been here. There's, what? Twenty-eight of you with at least four more on the verge of hatching? And you're all so close. I've never known there to be more than two broods to hatch in the same cycle. It's a little incredible.

[A miracle, even. If she's looking at him with a little adoration, it's purely circumstantial. What a wonderful thing to know you're not as alone at the end of the universe as you thought you might be.

--Or maybe that's just talk so he'll put away all the books for her. She did say she's a liar.]