"Calm down, stop squawking," the alien huffs, never mind the fact that he'd been doing every bit as much of that earlier. "I saw it, and I heard it creaking too... but there were a bunch of beings running all over and throughout that damn thing just a few hours ago. Maybe it will stabilize somewhat; there's a good portion of it still on solid ground, might provide some counterbalance. What I'm trying to say is that you might still get a shot at its innards yet. Patience."

That made him pull a face; he was starting to sound like his damned double. But the fact of the matter is that Algidus very badly wants to take a look around inside for his own reasons. If there was any communications technology at all still intact in the ship, he wants to know about it first so he could extract it for his own purposes.