"RIVER!" Amy leaped down the steps in one stride, but she and Rory got trapped behind Wilf, Barbara, and Ian, who hurriedly tried to get out of the way.

"Stay back!" River ordered. She grabbed Jack's hand and put it on the butt of the gun. "I won't fight you. I'd do the same if I was you."

Sarah Jane and everyone talked at once, shouting versions of, "No! Stop!" Mickey started running out of instinct.

At the same time, Jack pulled the gun out of her hands and put the safety on just as Amy got there and grabbed her shoulders. "We know," Jack said abruptly, "about the Doctor. He's alive."

Amy shook her. "What were you thinking?!"

River set her face even harder and locked on Sarah Jane, ordering... what? "My parents said that, didn't they? They're lying. They're trying to protect me, but I killed him." She tried shaking off Amy and Rory's hold on her arms, but they barely held on. "You heard the Silence's announcement. They have no reason to lie. I did it. The Doctor's dead because I killed him for them."

So that was what the look had meant. She wanted Sarah Jane to keep quiet about the truth.

Ian took a step towards her. "No, he's alive. You don't need to hide that from us."

Wilf got up from his chair and took her hands. "We wanted to thank you for saving him."

Jo stood alongside him and cupped her face as Rory had done. "He's right. Oh, you gorgeous darling. No wonder your parents are so proud."

"Not right now we're not," Amy ground out, but she forced herself to calm down. She brushed back the tired, drooping curls falling around River's face. "River. They really know. Sarah Jane gave them your message."

The look she shot Sarah Jane gave her the first idea she had gone against River's wishes. "You didn't want me to repeat it, did you? Amy tried to warn me. I should have listened." She took a step closer. "But don't you see, I couldn't keep it from them. How could I?"

River got wide-eyed and her lips parted. "So, you knew even during the attack?"

Barbara asked, "Attack?" She saw the marks on Rory's arm. "Oh, yes, that's right. I hope you will explain all of it, but to answer you: yes, we did. We know he's alive and we know what you did to save him."

River looked down to where her parents held her arms. They let go with Rory giving her a significant look and Amy telling her not to do anything else daft. She then stared around their circle before looking at Jack and then back to Sarah Jane. Her mouth worked for a second before she turned away. "He saved himself."

Amy snarled she was being daft again, but Mickey spoke up. "With you helpin'."

Dorothy tacked on, "And what you're doing, you're guarding his back. I don't count anything bigger than that."

River shook her head. "It honestly was his plan, all of it. I wasn't going to know it myself until the last moment. I just had to agree to it."

Sarah Jane's eyebrows drew tight together in confusion. "You can't diminish what you've done. No, listen. You've made a huge sacrifice. You're still making it."

Rani said, "Didn't your mum say you got twelve thousand life sentences, right?"

Luke added, "And your dad said you got your doctorate that morning and then were in a prison cell that night. That's right, isn't it?"

A brief flash darkened her expression - a shadow, a wistful feeling for the life she planned to have that morning and sacrificed that night? She turned abruptly to her father and they looked at each other for a beat.

Martha asked, "Did the Doctor really not plan to tell you? Didn't he know what would happen to you?"

"Yes," Rory said immediately. "River, I'm glad he's alive. I'm really glad, but he originally planned for you to be blamed for killing him and never know you didn't."

"Dad, I'm hardly suffering."

Amy cut in. "Yeah? Did you forget who you're talking to? Think we forgot what your plans were after you got your doctorate?"

Then it was gone in that whole time of one second and Rory was the one who stilled showed it. Not River.

She gave them a half smile. "He thought I might not remember he's the one I murdered."

"But they'd bring it up at your trial," Mickey persisted.

She signed. "Let me explain."

River went through it, in shorthand as Amy had said. How she didn't know if she could change the fixed point (and it ended she couldn't), but she had to try. How she thought he didn't know a way to do it, but she and her parents thought someone might if they asked for help. Hence her beacon and her telling the Doctor that at least millions, billions, of people loved him and they'd come if he needed them.

"You know what he's like. He thought we were better off with him playing dead. Because he'd be out of all our lives."

"And finally asked you for help," Barbara said.

"Yes."

"By sacrificing yourself."

River's jaw tightened. "I made the choice."

A sickened look passed around their faces. The Doctor thought they were better off without him. They may never see him again.

River tried to pick things up a bit. "It's ironic. You're telling me not to diminish what I've done. Look at all of you. You faced the Silence to protect him."

K9 spoke even with his voice still lacking full volume from low power levels. "Negative. Attack did not originate with the protection of the Doctor Master. The alien members of the Silence stated they intended to protect Melody Pond. Protection necessary so she may succeed in her latest mission: gaining the trust of younger versions of the Doctor Master."

Dorothy lifted her hand. "Ah! That's aimed at me and Jack. When we thought you killed the Professor, we said we'd kill you if we ever got a hold of you."

"Hold on," Jack said from where he still stood by the doors. "She's being nice. She probably would have just taken a swing at you-"

"More like strapped a canister of explosives to your arse." Amy glared at Dorothy just as she had in the garden but said nothing.

Jack finished, "- but I'm the one who threatened to kill you. I said, 'I'm putting a bullet-' Sarah Jane cut me off there."

River glanced between the two of them. "Anger got the better of you, I understand that. You obviously weren't serious about it, based on what you just did, Captain."

"I was dead serious. Just like you said you'd be if our places were reversed. Now I'm serious about this, Doctor River Song."

River braced herself and Jack couldn't look more determined.

"I mean this." He snapped into a salute.

A slow smile lit her whole face. "Well. I don't know if it warrants all that, but I'll take it. Thank you."

The phone rang. River jogged up the steps and took a look at something. She straightened up again. "I said I would take you home."

The phone kept ringing.

"Somebody owes you a new garden, Sarah Jane. Seriously, though, you have very forgiving neighbors."

"Sometimes," Luke answered. "Like once during a Bane attack. Other times they're running over to see what's going on."

The phone managed to ring louder or so it seemed to Sarah Jane. She wondered if it was an automatic setting to catch the Doctor's attention. Her ears started to hurt.

Martha pointed it out to River. "Aren't you going to answer the phone? Someone could be in real trouble."

Mickey picked up on that thread. "What do we do if they need the Doctor?"

River shook her head and smiled. "It's nothing like that."

"Oh." Amy got it. "I'd say you shouldn't answer and let him see what it's like to be on the other end. But, River."

"Understood," her daughter said softly. She grinned at them and put a finger to her lips, warning them to be quiet. She picked up the phone and hit a switch. She spoke in an overly bright and somewhat faux tone that Sarah Jane had heard many times from business people. "Hello, this is Doctor River Song. How may I help-?"

"You stole my Tardis!"

"Hello, Sweetie!"

Sarah Jane leaned back as laughter bubbled through her. Oh, how she wished she could tease him about it.

Barbara, Ian, Dorothy, and Jo looked surprised. Everyone else's eyes frankly bugged out of their heads. Martha mouthed what Sarah Jane thought was, "Sweetie?!"

"I borrowed her," River was saying, "You know how that is. Actually, that's not true either. We both decided to go together."

Obviously, he was the Doctor, he couldn't be anyone else, but a couple of people looked up to Amy and she nodded. She tugged River's shirt, leaned close to her ear and whispered something Sarah Jane couldn't hear. A flick of a few switches and a video of the Doctor's current incarnation came on a large screen across from the console. It looked like an enlarged ship's porthole rimmed in brass, fit over a roundel. Sarah Jane had to turn around to see it. Smiles broke out around the room. Jo came next to her side and put an arm around her, beaming. There he was, the Doctor as they last saw him.

In real life, however, he was far from the calm, happy Doctor back then. "That's a lie! My Tardis would never do that to me!"

"Technically, you're her Time Lord."

"Bring me back my ship!"

"Can't." River said. "We're having a Hen Night. Obviously, you can't come along."

"I want my Tardis back!"

Rani clamped a hand over her mouth, but a snort of laughter still came out. River looked up and winked. Rory saw that and turned to them with a heartfelt silent, "Don't encourage her."

"'I want my Tardis back.' Do you have any idea how childish that sounds?"

A long-suffering sigh came from the other end. "She said that to me."

"Well, she should know. She's the Tardis. Sweetie, you're 1200 years old. Act your age, not the one you look like."

She asked for it; she got it. The old Time Lord filled the next two syllables with every year he had been alive. "River." The sound was a warning that made soldiers take heed whether they were for or against him. It reminded enemies why they feared him. It told others salvation was here in the form of a champion who would never stop. It made River roll her eyes. "If we're going to talk about what age we look like-" She noted she liked her mature look. "- regardless of how you've always been lucky with rege-"

She interrupted him - rather quickly, Sarah Jane thought. "You know, Doctor, this is your fault." She swung the monitor around. "If you hadn't called me, I would be back a second after I left, just like I planned. Now I have to lock in through your call and allow for you saying I'm not there yet." She began typing rapidly at the keyboard and checked the screen again where numbers - a date and time - scrolled by.

"That - that's true. But it still wouldn't have happened if you hadn't stolen my-!" His voice suddenly lightened. "Good, you're here. We'll continue this conversation when I get inside."

"See you, Sweetie." She hung up the phone and glanced at Amy. "Whenever I finally go there from my point of view."

Clyde burst out laughing now that he finally could. He wasn't the only one. "Didn't know we'd get a floor show."

Jo still looked at the Doctor moving around on the screen. "I'm so glad he went back to the bowtie."

Amy stared at her. "He wore one before?"

River shrugged. "I'm rather fond of it too."

Rory chastised her. "You're biased."

"You called him Sweetie." Everyone swung their heads to look at Tegan. "Somebody's got to point it out."

"I call him more than Sweetie."

Rory groaned.

Sarah Jane walked to the stair railing. "I've been wanting to talk about something, something we first discussed in Gunnersbury Park. "We know now that you sent that message with the beacon. The one asking everyone to help the Doctor."

"And you wondered why it suddenly stopped."

Sarah Jane came around to the bottom of the staircase behind her. "I did at the time, we have the answer to that now. The thing is, Mr. Smith, my computer, said people had all these stories about the person who sent it. Some said she killed the Doctor, but others said-"

River cut her off. "Stories obviously get a lot of things wrong. That's why they're stories."

Her father stared up at her, asking some question silently, while Amy was clearly ready to shake her again.

"Others said," Sarah Jane continued. "that he married her."

Martha shouted, "What?!"

"You married the Professor?!" Dorothy exclaimed.

Mickey was slack-jawed. "Holy sh-"

Jo clapped her hands in happiness. "Two married couples on the Tardis! And one of them is you and the Doctor! Oh, this is lovely!"

Wilf agreed. "About time."

River stood at the top step, frozen, while all this and more went on. Then she turned with a smile. "Well, he gets married all the time, doesn't he?"

Tegan was confused before. Now she couldn't screw her forehead up more tightly if she tried. "He does?"

"Oi!" Amy shouted while Rory mumbled something about killing the Doctor if he ever showed up again. "What are you doing?"

"Taking everyone home, as I promised."

Sarah Jane blurted out, "Wait," and so did at least Martha, Ian, and Wilf. Amy was the one who said it for them. She nudged River with her shoulder. "After the night we all had? Offer them a trip."

"Would you like that?" River asked them.

"You can't seriously think they're going to say no," Amy scoffed.

"Oh, we would love it," Sarah Jane exclaimed. She thought she had better confirm that. "Yes?" she asked them as a whole.

A chorus of one agreement after another rang happily through the control room. River stood back from the console and swept her hands across it. "Everywhere in time and space is waiting. Where would you like to go?"

"A beach!" Martha said immediately.

"A pub," Mickey said a half second after her.

She turned on him. "A pub? Out of everywhere?"

"You picked a beach."

"But that can be somewhere exotic!"

"That sounds lovely!" Jo clapped her hands. "On another world with a sky like nothing we've seen before!"

Jack jumped in. "I'll second that. A beach with a bar where everyone is barely wearing a thing."

River lifted an eyebrow over wicked eyes. Rory rubbed his head like it was starting to pound.

"Could we see him?" Everyone's head swiveled to Wilf. "Any of him?"

Sarah Jane thought of all of his faces that she knew. "Please. Is it possible?"

They broke out into a tangle of spoken lines as they debated and asked for one Doctor in particular or him somewhere they had heard him talk about. River finally lifted her hands up asking for quiet. When she got it, she walked in front of Ian and Barbara. Her warm smile and voice carried respect. "The first two who traveled with the first Doctor, to give him the name of the Doctor. You choose."

Barbara turned a speechless, excited face around the group to see if they were okay with this, and then turned into her husband to put her hands on his chest and lean in. He slipped an arm around her waist and smiled in the same way at her. "We were just talking about this. What it would be like if we could see them both again."

"But which of the ways we said? The two of them or Susan after she left?"

He looked to River. "Is either of those possible?"

She still wore that same warm look. "Oh, it absolutely is possible."

Dorothy spoke, "The very first Doctor?"

Tegan closed her eyes. "Oh god, that one."

Sarah Jane laughed as she explained to the shocked faces. "She had a bad experience."

Barbara chuckled. "That's him."

"I have two questions. First." Amy moved in front of Jo which also put her in the center of everyone. "About this bowtie. You said he wore them before."

"Oh yes! Oh, he was magnificent, wasn't he, Sarah Jane?"

She remembered that mane of white hair, his strong features, personal strength, and charm. "Yes, he was. We were on this one planet when he was in his fourth body, and they complimented him on having a "magnificent head", the way an artist would say it."

Tegan lifted her eyebrows. "Really?"

Sarah Jane grinned. "Yes, really. He did have an amazing smile and voice with that incarnation. A wonderful sense of humour and still that deadly temper. But he told this man he'd been lucky and had several of them, including an old grey model he had before this one. I told him I was one of the people who liked it." She couldn't keep the laughter from her voice. "Bowtie and all."

Jo was a toucher, so she took Amy's hand as she talked. "So yes, he had a bowtie. Bowtie, Inverness cape, velvet jacket, ankle boots -"

Amy interrupted. "And you didn't do an intervention?"

Jo laughed and so did Sarah Jane. "It was the 70s. Wilf, tell them."

He chuckled and signaled surrender. "I'm afraid you'll somehow find pictures of me if I try to brag about how good I looked."

Tegan motioned to get Sarah Jane's attention. "Didn't the second one have a bowtie too? Do you remember that?"

"Right, second question." Amy looked around the group. 'Did anyone here know the woman with the leather bikini?"

Jack jumped in, "I'm going to say it before anybody else does. Someone on the Tardis wore a leather bikini and it wasn't me?"

Mickey snorted. "I wasn't going to say that."

Tegan thought out loud, "That sounds familiar. I think she was after you, Sarah Jane. She was before me. But there was a Time Lady right before us, so she'd be before that."

River finally spoke up. "Leela, warrior of the Sevateem. She brought the first K9 onboard too." She caught Amy's stare. "What? I thought it'd be better coming from them. And it wasn't a bikini, Mother, it was a one piece with a loincloth."

Dorothy matched River in grinning. "She sounds fun. Why did she leave?"

"She stayed on Gallifrey to marry a Time Lord. K9 stayed with her which led to the Doctor building his K9, the Mark II."

Jack took off the black jacket and tossed it over the back of a chair. He started rolling up his sleeves. "So how far back would I have to go to run into her?"

Amy spun around to look up at River at the console who was grinning over Jack's remark. "Let's get right to it. I'm betting this will work for you. Say 'show me all visual records of previous Tardis inhabitants'."

Her daughter dutifully repeated it. The roundel screen lit up again with a quick succession of Companions, not in any order.

Amy said, "Voice locked to the Doctor, but I figured it would work."

River looked all around the console, excited. "Look what I can do!"

Rory knocked on the rail and asked, "Can you get it in colour? It's in black and white."

She watched it and then looked up at the rotor. "Yeah, I can. Hold on." She played at the controls and the photos went by again, in colour this time.

The people gasped and exclaimed as their picture or someone they knew went by. Amy shouted, "Stop! That's her."

Jack watched for a second. "I'm going to ask again. How far back do I have to go to run into her?"

"To run into her in everyone else's definition," River answered, "the 51st century. To run into her the way you mean it: don't, even with the immortality."

"Well, before we land," said Amy and spun on one foot to target River, "someone needs to head for the wardrobe. How many times have I told you, I don't like seeing you in your prison uniform."

Her daughter's mouth dropped open. "Seriously?" Amy folded her arms over her chest and hit her with that look.

Rory didn't help any. "I told you not to change back."

Amy grabbed hold of that. "You changed and then changed back to your prison clothes?"

"Well, in her defense, we got the timing wrong." Rory then said to Sarah Jane, "River hadn't seen you yet. She was trying to figure out how to do it when I got to Stormcage."

Sarah Jane understood. "So, you took the vortex manipulator and came to see me in Gunnersbury Park."

"And then I went back. I didn't know," this aimed at Amy, "that I was leaving right away again."

"You're always leaving right away again. Get used to it."

Jack's next words brought a stillness down on the room. "That's when Rory told you I threatened to kill you."

"Yes." She answered him with the same, quiet tone. "I misunderstood. I thought - you know what I thought."

They looked back at each other before his lips twitched with the start of a grin. "So, then you stole the Tardis."

Rory put in, "The vortex manipulator made me sick." Martha groaned in sympathy.

River beamed down at him. "Couldn't have that. Now then! We-" Amy leaned in between her and the Tardis controls and refused to yield. "Mother, do you realize how ridiculous this is?"

"Do you know I don't care?"

River blew out an exasperated breath. "I'm sorry, everyone, but we're going to have to hold the trip because my mum is making me change."

Rani snorted and tried to cover it up again by slapping her hands over her mouth. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I just - get it all the time at home."

Luke laughed too. "She sounds like you, Mum!"

"Hey!" Sarah Jane went over and grabbed him around the shoulders. "Don't you start!"

Martha looked up to Amy and River. "Can I come up there?"

River swung her head, startled. "Of course you can! I didn't mean to make it look like any of you couldn't."

The other woman dashed up the stairs, Mickey with her, and put her hands on the console. "It's so different."

Sarah Jane smiled over at Jo, remembering when the two of them came on board the last time. "And the same."

Jo's face was already bright with that unending happiness. She breathed in like a connoisseur wafting the scent of fine wine under their nose. "Time."

River tapped at the controls. "Excellent idea. While you're waiting," she gave Amy another exasperated look. She pulled down on a lever. "I brought the control rooms for each of you out of the archives if you'd like to see them. You have more than one," she smiled at Sarah Jane. "Your rooms are back too in case you left anything behind or just want to revisit them."

Dorothy laughed. "I can't wait to see the old rock posters I had on the walls!"

Rory looked at his daughter. "I can't find the t-shirt you brought me from your university. Maybe that's where it is."

River pointed down the main corridor for everyone else. "Down there, two lefts, 4 rights, and you'll hit a junction. Console rooms are on the left and your rooms are on the right."

They took off in a happily buzzing group. "I want to see all of them!" Jo said and then linked arms with Ian and Barbara, "starting with yours if you don't mind. The first console room!"

Jack knew he left things in his room; Clyde and Rani teased Sarah Jane about what she must have had in her room while Luke took her hand and pulled her along at the thought of seeing something so important in his mother's life. But she somehow caught the sound of Amy talking to River. She hesitated, the journalist in her wanting to hear the story she had gleaned in the last few minutes. She told the teens to go on ahead, she would join them soon and moved quietly down the corridor back towards the console room and the Ponds.

"All right," she heard Amy say, "I want an answer now. What are you doing?"

"You hid your biology scan," said Rory. "You said it was the Doctor's."

Sarah Jane was glad for the years of experience that kept her quiet. River had the same biology as the Doctor!

Amy was talking. No, demanded. "Why wouldn't you tell them about you and the Doctor? And what's this about him getting married all the time?!"

River sighed. "I thought you already knew that."

Sarah Jane pictured Amy's maternal reaction. "Rory, remind me to kill him if he ever comes back."

"Get in line."

"Now answer our questions, River."

Sarah Jane didn't hear anything for a long minute, and she wondered if River had lowered her voice. But it wasn't that.

"The biology scan... do we really want to go into Demon's Run and everything else? I thought it was better to avoid all the questions."

"What about you and the Doctor?"

Sarah Jane felt someone behind her and turned to see Jack coming back. She signaled him to be quiet. She wasn't shocked to hear River was with the Doctor; she had already seen him with women. But River's answer did stun her so much, she grabbed Jack's arm.

"Mother, they have a friend. Her name is Rose. I'll tell you the whole story another time, but she and the Doctor were together. He loved her and she adored him. The last time they saw her, she and the Doctor still were with each other. I didn't want them to think he lightly replaced her."

Jack went by Sarah Jane before she registered it. "Rose is happy."

The Ponds each swung startled heads at his intrusion. He slipped his hands in his pockets. "She's with a man who's good for her, more than the Doctor. He can give her what the Doctor couldn't."

"How do you know she's happy?" River asked softly.

He smiled. "Because she would have come back if she wasn't."

Sarah Jane saw the answering smile that stayed even as River mumbled under her breath, "And he gave me a hard time over risking one universe to save his life."

Jack caught it too. "He would, even though I think he risked the same thing to say goodbye to Rose."

She nodded and then a heavy silence fell on the room. Sarah Jane wanted to ask so many questions, but River didn't seem to want to discuss them. Something needed to be said.

River suddenly got this smirk and she leaned a hand on the railing. Not from being hurt this time. "You know," she said to Jack, "we've met. Twice."

His smile was equally wicked. "I think I'd remember."

Her grin grew. "I was younger. I looked a lot different. And it's the future for you."

"Oh, I can't wait."

The sound of everyone coming back ended things there. Sarah Jane decided to be the one to divert them and greeted them brightly. "That was quick!"

Barbara answered, "We decided we couldn't wait for a new adventure and thought maybe we'd explore all the rooms after- Oh."

Wilf came around the corner and stopped just like her at the sight of River. "We didn't give you enough time to change."

"We should have thought of that," Rani said and started tugging Luke and Clyde. "Come on. Sarah Jane can show us around now."

River called them back. "It's fine. I'll do it after we land. I'm thinking the same thing as all of you. It's all waiting for us, so let's be on our way."

Sarah Jane walked back down into the console room. "We have one problem."

Clyde groaned. "I was hoping you forgot that."

River looked over her shoulder. "Forgot what?"

"We - Rani, Clyde, and I," Luke began, "we're not allowed to leave the planet."

"Who told you that?!"

"Captain Tybo. He's a Judoon."

River made a noise in her throat followed by something in another language. "Damn Rhi- look, don't worry about them. We shouldn't see them anywhere we're going, and even if we do, I have it covered. Which one of you is the best liar?"

"Clyde," Luke and Rani said at once while he said simultaneously, "Me."

"All right, Clyde, if we meet any Judoon, I want you to shout that I kidnapped you. Really sell it. What are they going to do to me? Put me in prison?" She grinned. So did Sarah Jane and most of the others. Wilf chuckled. "Actually," River said to Amy, "that might be fun. Pop back to Stormcage, wait for the Judoon to show up with claims that I've been out kidnapping people. Imagine people's faces."

Amy smiled. "And there it is. Maximum security prison for others. Low-end pit stop for you."

River looked like she pictured how she was going to have fun with that before she returned to the teens. "Anyway, don't worry about the Judoon. In fact, whenever you want to travel off of Earth, give me a call. I really don't mind being the fall guy."

"We'll," Sarah Jane cut into the instant enthusiastic babble from the younger three, "discuss that at another time."

River agreed. "Now, the first Doctor and Susan."

Ian came up closer. "Which of the two ideas can we do?"

"Oh, we're not choosing. Why would we?" The Tardis shifted as they took off from the Vortex. "We'll start with them at a bazaar they liked. It will be before you met them." She looked from around the monitor. "You won't be able to talk to them. They can't see you before they meet you. That goes for everyone. But the bazaar is busy enough that you can see them, probably even get close enough to hear them. You can talk to Susan in London. All right?"

Their smiles were answer enough. Ian put an arm around his wife's shoulders. "It's more than alright. We never thought we'd get this chance."

Jo impulsively hugged them. " I think we can definitely enjoy today's trip."

"Right," River said, mistress of the console. "Now then, Luke, what do you know about piloting time ships with that enhanced mind of yours?"

The teen gaped. "I've been reading – but -"

She waved a hand. "Up you go then."

"Mum?" he begged.

Sarah Jane thanked River in her mind a thousand times. "Of course, go."

He launched himself up the stairs and River took him through each step. "If you concentrate, do you feel the slightest tingle or vibration?"

He closed his eyes. "…yes."

"That's her." River laid a loving hand on the time rotor. "I thought you might with your mind."

"Oh." He looked up at the ceiling and smiled. "Hello."

A hum swept around the room and Sarah Jane felt it come up through her feet. She wanted to giggle from it; some people did.

"Mum!" Luke whispered – as if no one else could hear him. "Did you see that?"

She smiled back. "Yes, I did."

"Luke," River called.

He looked where she pointed. "We're going to be landing soon."

Martha's forehead furrowed. "Isn't it quieter than it used to be?"