Season 2 · Episode 3

A Survey Corps team spends a crossing night on Drithane, and their manifest lists one courtesy animal. It is Bubochka's first exercise away from the station. Her job is to learn how a whole world watches its own sky. A cover that works by being ignored turns out to work differently on a planet where everyone looks twice.

• S02E03C01 The Dark-DownDrithane (Bríd System), Gleann na gCaorach valley chainA Survey Corps follow-up delegation is billeted in a Drithane valley for a crossing night, and its manifest carries one courtesy animal — a trainee rabbit whose exercise is to observe how a world watches its own sky, on a planet where her usual cover works exactly backwards.
• S02E03C02 Not From This HouseDrithane (Bríd System), Gleann na gCaorach valley chainThe delegation's second supply drop delivers something that was on nobody's manifest and in everybody's hands — and a valley warden who reads animals for a living meets the first one in forty years she can't, in front of two collies who never ask whether a thing is charming, only where it should be.
• S02E03C03 Carrying TwoDrithane (Bríd System), Gleann na gCaorach valley chain; Eden Space Habitat, Deck 7The delegation lifts for home the morning after a crossing, and the loading chain carries everything it is handed — including the thing a valley warden names out loud at the ramp, to no effect at all. The counter, Bubochka's report concludes, works person by person. It has never yet worked institution by institution.