And she just twenty-three, Dagny thought. But Brandir, the oldest, was just forty-one. And she, his mother, took her first job on the moon at age nineteen. (Forty-eight years ago, was that it? Time went, time went.) Well, pioneering eras stand open to youth.
“None of this can we swiftly or easily achieve, nor by ourselves.” Brandir addressed Dagny: “Again we must draw on your wisdom and your aid.”
“Me?” she countered.
“None other could do so well,” Kaino avowed.