[Tess watches him move with the watchful eye of someone used to checking and rechecking her surroundings, but her body language stays relaxed –– even overconfident. She figures she wouldn't have brought this one in awake. The biolocked pistol on her hip does a lot of heavy lifting in closing the gap between her and anyone of a bigger build. Confidence closes the rest.]

You think they tell us specifics?

[But more to the point:]

You're on the Peregrine. It's part of the [she unhooks her thumbs just to do finger quotes] "Transformative and Penal Reparation Fleet." Basically something's going wrong back home, and you're either doing it or making it worse, and the Navarch thinks the best way to fix your world is to fix you and send you back home to do it. That track?