"I agree," Tom said after looking into her eyes for a moment. "I suppose the advantage Mertens has is he knows as long as we're stuck here he's the best option we have, assuming this isn't some massive prank anyway." He found himself finishing his food quicker than he had intended. "I'll go ahead, I'll meet you there." He stood up, then handed a piece of paper to Ix. "If anyone starts causing you trouble, ask for a guard called Marden, don't know how or why but he seems to have a knack for making difficult people go away quite suddenly."<br/><br/>He got out of the cafeteria as quickly as he could, finding his way to the lab, which was hidden on one of the higher levels of the station, away from any of the cells and in a corridor which was otherwise unremarkable. He knocked on the door, the lack of response causing him to knock louder.<br/><br/>"Come in," came a voice from inside the room. "I'm just finishing something and then I'll be with you." When Tom entered the room he discovered it was a larger room than he expected, the floor covered in graphs and pieces of paper, with the far wall dominated by a large computer, from beneath which a lab coat clad pair of legs emerged. "Sorry, this computer breaks down far too often for my own liking."