AJ could only hitch up her jumpsuit and then give him a grin that looked ready to eat shit. "You're not going in without me there. I'm gonna see your face. I remember you hiding out in the fr... I mean, I know you could use somewhere cold, and this place is two steps away from being a swamp. I'm just saying," and now she sermonized, "if you want some relief, at least there's someone in here with us who's not, you know... maybe completely useless."

In fact, by this point she was beginning to realize that a lot of these people were far from completely useless. It stood to reason: these were the survivors of the truly catastrophic crash that the pair of them had completely missed. What did it say that these were the only people alive out of however many it looked like the colossus could support? Since they weren't crying for blood, alien or otherwise...

Well, they might prove useful on a lot of fronts. AJ was going to have to do a lot more watching and probing to find out.