Dutch’s eyes go wide and her jaw drops for a moment. “Instant what now??” She leans forward just slightly. “You have instant hangover cure pills?” A big smile spreads across her face. “Oh, Ivan, I am jealous of you.” All she could think of were the miserable mornings after she could have avoided if she could have only gotten her hands on some of those pills. Of course, it sounded like there were some side effects to taking them, but there were side effects to everything, it seemed.

“Simply put, yeah, hacking would be people digging where they’re not supposed to. My dad worked against that, trying to patch holes and keep people out, so to speak. He’s the reason I got into technology.” She smiles faintly. Her father probably wouldn’t have been so proud of some of the things she’d done back home. Planting malware in the fiber optics center to all but shut down the internet in New York City for a time... It hadn’t been Dutch’s finest moment. She’s grown since then, though, and look at her, now! Patching holes in spaceships and sharing wine with wonderful almost-strangers!

“I can’t imagine a world without the internet. It must be so different from the one I live in.” Dutch finds herself staring off into space as she sips at her wine. After a moment she snaps back to reality, looking to Ivan with a charming smile. “I bet it’s amazing in some ways.”