Liam couldn’t explain it, but he felt some sort of connection to Verity. Her presence was somehow reassuring, even as he was certain they had never met.

“You are human,” he observed. No visible implant, so she wasn’t a drone or a Volunteer, then. “I do not know how I came to be here. I have never been permitted to go down to the planet before.” He didn’t know how long he would be allowed to remain, before someone found him and brought him back, so her guess was as good as his as to whether it would be ‘the weekend’ or not.