"Right. Sorry. I know it's hard to believe. I know it's crazy talk." A deep breath. "My dad was an Egyptologist. And he had these theories and no one believed him until one day, he was picked up out of nowhere and brought to Cheyenne Mountain. Where the SGC was. And what they'd spent two years trying to decipher took him two weeks. He figured out how to make it all work."
She stares out the driver's side window. "I didn't even do that much traveling across the galaxy. I did a lot of my growing up standing almost still." Thinking about it makes her visibly distracted. "There was a ship, the Odyssey. And it was stuck in a time dilation bubble for twentyish years. It's where I grew up. When everyone else went back to normal, I stayed this age. Well, THAT age. I was almost twenty-two."
Hattie shakes her head. "I just want to know if the Gate is there. I don't even know if the rest of the tech can be recreated."