"Harper's okay. He's shaky, literally. Probably has a horrible headache, but you know he deserves it." Harper consumed more sparky cola than food a lot of the time. And drank it on duty, while operating heavy machinery. He was lucky they had nanobots on board to undo the damage to his digestive system. "I spotted him in Ten Forward trying to come up with an alternate solution. You know Harper." Trance turned to Julian to fill him in.

"Harper isn't a straight forward thinker. He jumps from A to M, and usually he's smart enough to make it happen, even without knowing what comes in between. And he's a bit single minded." That was putting it mildly but it was the best she could come up with, without subjecting her new friend to actual Harper experience.