Alloran assumes she's talking about this situation and Jormugand. He makes an awkward nod.

<Not universal, but - useful. Perhaps all those years without patches caught up to it, or it was the electricity here.> He'd kind of like to stop, but it doesn't actually occur to Alloran that he has the option to refuse. He hasn't, not in many years. <We do, and it is and is not. It's not possible in real space, but z-space is a different story. There are... quite a few alien sentients besides humans and Andalites.>