I'm hoping it will only take a few months.

[He looks away, eyes cutting from Kovacs to the wall beside him. There's nothing there, except the pale grey of the hull. Being on a ship sailing through space is nerve-wracking in the way it doesn't fit with how he understands the world. Like watching two impossible things happening at once, the mind struggling to make sense of what's its seeing.]

But the last mission took weeks. It might be a few years before we succeed.