[ Everything about the alley certainly looks authentic. Right down to the refuse and, of course, the smell. ] Ugh. I think I'd rather follow your nose toward that, too.

[ Marika was no stranger to cleaning and doing dirty work, but even collecting trash on two full-sized spacecraft could only approach a tenth of the level of what she'd caught wind of just then. Good grief! ]

The statue... I read that inscription, too. It seems familiar somehow. [ She looks around. ] No one else seems to care that much about it.