"I insist my crew take at least one shift in three off. It's far too easy to lose a limb to exhaustion aboard an airship," Yasmeen explained, since they rarely talked of her past but it seemed a decent time. "Since I never asked them to do anything I wouldn't, that applied to me as well."

That said, she gave a verbal nod to the idea they were a gift. "I have a yen for adventure novels. Do you know what your friend likes?" She wouldn't press on who the friend was, not at the moment, although she felt sure she knew.