At the border of order, the composition and laws of information showed themselves in bizarre, unruly ways—Duncan thought about it for a long time and finally gave up thinking.
Anyway, the good news was that Lei Nora hadn’t been knocked off the Lost-Homeland or crushed under the hull—bad news was she’d been knocked into the ship, and she was still dazed.
It made Duncan think of a famous picture in the world:
dog-hit-by-car-ends-up-embedded-in-the-front-bumper-and-taken-onto-the-highway.jpg.
Duncan cleared his throat twice, shoved the silly image out of his head, and, with a little apology and concern on his face, took two steps forward with Alice. “Sorry, I didn’t watch where I was driving… Are you all right?”
Alice, standing nearby, kept her head down as if lost in thought, then suddenly poked Duncan’s arm. “Captain, I remember at first it was the Lost-Homeland that hit the White Oak and then I ended up on your ship. Now it’s the Frost Queen’s turn—doesn’t that make it come full circle?”
Duncan shot her a look. “‘Come full circle’ isn’t used like that!”
Lei Nora seemed to come around a bit then.