"Um. I'm not sure. Not many of my clothes appeared, but when I came, they hadn't started using credits yet, so you could just hatch whatever you wanted. It sounds plausible, though?"

She got the feeling that he had more of a basis for the theory than she would. He sounded a bit authoritative, to her.

"And it did help, a little. I think it would have been much harder to accept that I was trapped, if I was surrounded by all strangers."