"Better than it was," Swift sighed. He loved Forever, but Terzian hadn't exactly been a builder. Or even a sympathetic ruler. "There's still a lot of work to do, but we're doing our best." They'd improved, and they still were. People lived better than they had been. He had to keep thinking of what they'd accomplished or he'd get lost in the sheer amount of work left.

"What about you? I haven't been where you were. What is it like there?"