[ The thing is, her cool as cucumber reaction actually makes Jim more suspicious, because someone who wasn't trained to deliberately not notice him giving her the side-eye would probably ask why he was doing so. At least, that's how his brain works-- and it's not really suspicion, is it? No, it's curiosity. One of Jim's weaknesses. For all his understanding of privacy and the very real probability that Peggy is, one way or another, just doing her job - whatever that might be - there's a huge part of him that wants to poke at her and see what happens.

Hopefully on some level she appreciates the amount of self-restraint !! it's taking to talk about Voss instead. BUT ... the Voss stuff is pretty interesting, so, there's that. We'll all see what happens when he gets a drink in him. ]

I was surprised, [ he admits. ] I was taken in to see him right away, and he spoke totally candidly about their observations. The astronomers did a pretty good job keeping records of a phenomenon - that happens to coincide with the night Darma's message failed. There was a flickering and dimming of luminescence over Thesa for three hours, and when it stabilized, several dark spots abruptly appeared on the surface. Points of -- they called it darkness, or shadow, followed by light, moved across the surface and away, four in total. Like tiny comets. They had a map and pattern graphs, too, I couldn't get a picture, but the points of origin were all points on the station that the orbiters correspond to.

The Natha left. They got in ships and they left.