Sam blinked out of reflex as her first syllable abruptly changed, then his poker face came back within an instant.<br/>"I'm sure the network isn't as stable as we are all led to believe. That it works as well as it does it a minor miracle. It doesn't take a hyper-physicist to figure out that whenever a system's astro control says the pattern is full when you're one of six ships within two light-minutes of a gate that ITC is covering for a problem. Full traffic patterns look better to the politicians than mechanical problems, of course."<br/><br/>He cleared his throat, looking at her but doing his best to not look like he was looking at her. His eyes were instead pointed at the terminal over her shoulder.<br/>He'd spent the night going over ITC's recorded dealings with the Geminese government and had stared for several hours at a holo-recording of the company's president and his wife at a soiree with the President of Gemini. The woman before him looked too much like both of them to be coincidental and her phonetic goof gave him an in. "You're Richter's daughter, aren't you?" he asked, pausing only a moment, "don't worry, your secret is safe here."