I'll get there, but that's skippin' to the end a bit, and I gotta figure out how the hell to even tell the beginning.

[ He paused, leaning his head back against the wall with a hum. ]

So, we were headin' back to Ganymede, with you and Chrisjen and all the kids when it happened. The protoshit, on Venus, had been workin' away that whole damn time, and like a damn Krakken from the deeps, it rose outta the cloud bank like a giant ship.

Swore I nearly had a heart attack, when I saw the news feed.