"I try not to let people down too often about what my job is like. People have such a romantic view about space travel in this time. And the exciting bits are rather different but no one wants to hear that the bulk of my job has more in common with a typical office worker's than not."

Jim turns that chuckle back toward Theresa then and follows her pointed gaze up to the moon.

"I am right here, thanks to that magical place Viatorus goes to. Even when my ship is faaaaar far away I can get to the Nexus all the same. Though, as to how I arrived here this evening, that has more to do with my friend Felix's magic. I can't do magic of any kind."