"Then why did you think something was wrong?"
"It wasn't that we knew something was wrong."
"You are in a position where lying will do you no good. What is happening inside the station? Are our controls failing?"
"What controls? Do you mean that you can control the crew of the Andromeda from here?"
"What do you think?" Filo answered. "If there had been any important loss of control, I would have known about it. But there may have been hints, attempts to convey information, which I did not catch. Have there been such attempts?"
Before Craig could answer another voice was whispering in the air, calling urgently, "Great Filo? Please contact me immediately." The voice was a thin whisper of sound, as if somewhere a man was thinking and his thoughts were being built up to audible volume.
"Yes," Filo answered. "What is it?"
"Nuoy insists on coming aboard the ship. Please instruct me."
"Who is Nuoy?"
"He seems to think he is the top dog in the System."