Urania shook her head at the boy. She already had a read on what he could become with the right pushes, and she was no determined to push. She was a muse. She was inspiration. Her very presence could make people strive for their very best.
She squeezed his arm lightly. "And will accounting make you happy?" she asked. "Will punching numbers for some old man to make sure he has enough to buy another car bring you the same exhilarating joy as gazing into the stars and finding what's there? Do you want to spend your whole life, waste your life, in an office with other drones, or do you want to find new worlds?"
Her gaze was on Topher and Topher alone, her eyes never leaving his. "The man who discovered Kepler-442b said that it changed his entire life. A earth-sized rocky exoplanet resting in a habitable zone, where there can be water and light and life. When he realised what they'd found, he was so overwhelmed that he wrote one unofficial word at the top of an internal memo: home."