He was helping her...talking about something else, something different.
"I'd love to" she said, too brightly, and walked him over to where he was to sign in.
"Just sign there...that gets you a room...and then we can try and figure a way out of here. Maybe introduce you to Islan...three of us can work out a way to comm back home. He might have senatorial contacts and I got a million and one transponder codes for various ships that'd know me."
With him and with Islan there was a chance...she could get back...