Jiro’s Eenspektor made steadily more noise as they approached, but the growth was slow enough that their minds didn’t quite register it. Jiro did not seem alarmed by the level of radioactivity, but Dinah didn’t know how to interpret that. Earlier in the mission, she had probed him for some general background about what to expect. "If it’s very bad, we all just lose consciousness and the mission fails," he’d said. "The flux of radiation just shuts down our nerves, our sphincters open, we never even know it’s happening."