A strange question was always going to get strange answers. Even so, Estella's caused Rosario's eyebrows to draw together, puzzled. The strong magnetic pull on others, she thought she got; Estella was a talented science communicator and she'd mentioned before how much she loved opening up the complexities of astronomy to a general audience. And when she interviewed other scientists, their passion showed through, too. Estella was magnetic in that way. But— the other part? "You see yourself as having a short active life?"