"Tabak!" he gasped.
The Caligan girl stood beside the ladder leading below. She was dressed in Brigg's olive-green uniform, her eyes dancing.
"But I thought you'd gone away!"
Her face softened. "I couldn't. It—it's too strong for me, Jupiter. I've been in Brigg's cabin all the time. I knew that was one place you'd never go."
He said: "Then it was me?" his eyes slowly kindling.
Tabak nodded.
Jupiter shoved off from the back of the shock absorber, grabbed the girl in his arms. "You're crazy," he said, "you didn't have to stow away."
"But you said you wouldn't take anybody with you when you left."
The tube began to buzz angrily; the red light winked on. Jupiter stiffened.
"Who's that?"