Ellie just gives him a beaming grin back, and looks on through the glass, the smile lingering. Her shoulders have relaxed, and she takes a while to find the various bodies, familiarizing herself with the new map of the sky. It's dizzying to her, exciting, and after a lifetime of love for a different sky completely, maybe she should miss it more. But this one just seems like something else to swallow down.

How many people get to see more than one set of stars, really?

"Thanks," she says, pulled back to glance at the rocks. Her expression flickers to something more thoughtful and back again, and it takes a second to pull together what she wants to say.

A few seconds, really. So long it seems like she won't say anything. But then she does.

"They're moon rocks. From the moon," she says. "Not one of these moons, but- from a place I was before." Technically, not even her moon. Not really.

"I never got to make it up there myself, but..." she trails off, here. "Somebody I knew brought them back for me."