That was because Octavia was extremely cool.

Duke paused at a cross hallway, then hooked to the left and down some stairs, into an exhibit space full of tanks and tubes, each holding a different variety of jellyfish. The tanks were lit in such a way that the jellies seemed to glow much the way the necklaces did. Duke stopped in front of a tank of blue blubber jellyfish and just watched them burble about for several moments.

"God, but these fuckers are weird." But in such a nice familiar way for once!