The blaaaat of the airhorn was answered by the traditional booing, as the audience expressed their love. Bill grinned back from the podium. "Yeah, yeah. Okay, today’s meet includes an update from Bob-1"—Bill was forced to wait for a wave of catcalls and cheers to die down—"on the subject of Bender, and the situation in Eta Leporis." This produced a silence far more profound than the earlier noise. Bender’s disappearance had become the Bobiverse’s version of the Flying Dutchman legend.