I didn’t know she was still alive; everyone on Earth spoke of her as if she were dead. “I didn’t know they taught things like this in Earth universities,” my new manager, Thames, said. Martians didn’t really need the suits, seeing as centuries of genetic engineering made them perfectly suited to the planet’s rough environment, but most wore them anyway. But Martians didn’t care much for Earth religions or poetry, so it figured they got their metaphors mixed up. I asked because I didn’t know what else to say.