"Maybe hands was the wrong choice of words," Tom said with a chuckle. "I forgot the reason Karel's base is so well disguised is there's no direct jump route to it. I can show you where I'm trying to get to but I need an extra person to help me make sure we don't crash into anything on the way there. You think you can help?"<br/><br/>He changed the image on the computer in front of Ix to that of a star map, showing the eastern fringe of the galaxy and zooming into a large station in the middle of an isolated part of space.<br/><br/>"I didn't interrupt anything did I?" he asked. "I genuinely didn't mean to stop you two talk...bondi...whatever it was you were doing."