You probably used fusion bombs against the Girls. - Larry Niven

Jesus Pietro was worried. The Sons of Earth, if they got this far, would go straight to the vivarium to free their compatriots. But if Matthew Keller was his own agent...
If the ghost of Alpha Plateau was not a rebel, but a thing with its own unpredictable purpose...
Jesus Pietro worried.

The morning was blacker than the inside of a smoker’s lungs.

Sometimes you just have to be satisfied with what you are.