Arada made an open-handed shrug gesture. "I don’t know how else to figure out what’s going on here, babe. If we can get a visual and they’re all gray people wearing alien remnants on their heads, then at least we’ll know they probably won’t want to help us." She added, "And if we’re a lot more lucky than we usually are, they’ll have some idea where the explorer with Perihelion ’s people is."