"So nothing until we're asked. Even then you know nothing."
In the Relay Girl, Channing mopped his forehead. "That was hell itself," he said.
Arden laughed uncertainly. "I thought that it would wait until we got there; I didn't expect hell to come after us."
"What—exactly—happened?" asked Walt, coming into the scanning room.
"That—was a spaceship."
"One of this system's?"
"I wonder," said Don honestly. "It makes a guy wonder. It was gone too fast to make certain. It probably was Solarian, but they tried to burn us with something."
"That makes it sound like something alien," admitted Walt. "But that doesn't make good sense."
"It makes good reading," laughed Channing. "Walt, you're the Boy Edison. Have you been tinkering with anything of lethal leanings?"