"They... we looked at the sky, figured out how the stars and planets moved, and what they were made of, and what directions they were going in. We dug up the ground and looked at the layers to see what we were standing on top of, and how long it'd been there. We looked at the cells of living things to find out how they were related to each other, and how they were changing, and what they probably looked like before. History leaves traces on everything, like it wants to be discovered."

"And then there's this. We somehow missed this part. And we're probably going to have to do all that tedious research all over again, unless there's someone here who already knows."

He looks at her.

"How long has there been a Queen?"