"I figured you wouldn't be leading us right into the thick of it if they weren't," Summer said with a small smile, "but it's always nice when they're, like, super hospitable. They probably don't get many visitors this far out, though, right, so when they do, it's definitely, like, party time!"

She laughed a little, and then just sort of reveled a little in the moment because, god, she missed this sort of thing. And she really felt like nothing would go horribly wrong with the Zixon, too, which was always in the back of her mind. Things always seemed to take a sharp turn for the worse on past exursions, but, well, she supposed it was easier to avoid that when your traveling companions weren't total major douchebags.