[Keith is already diving into the french fries, before looking up at that, surprised. very like him? Shiro... Shiro always has thought the best of him, hasn't he? He smiles a bit.]

Yeah, me too. Came close for a bit, but...

[Well, it ended better than he could have imagined, given what followed after. He turns to the question.] A place called the Quantum Abyss. Black holes and neutron stars all clustered in one place. They distort time and space. Our ship got destroyed, but there were these incredible creatures. Like whales, but just... huge. Big enough that they had an entire environment and ecosystem on their backs. We managed to get aboard one, and that's how we made it through the Abyss.