Aqua's sudden interest enabled Even to place her at last. She was presumably a contemporary, or near to it, of Ven's.

"Briefly," he said over his shoulder as he tugged the Second District door open. "I encountered him in - Radiant Garden, once. Fairly recently from his point of view, rather less so from mine."

He hadn't intended to falter over the name of his home world. There had simply been so few occasions to speak of it, since its fall. (He was aware that he was lying to himself; it was not that simple.)