Tommy nodded as Sookie explained, and zoomed in to the limit of blurriness. The star field around him showed four, maybe five systems, and three of them had red dots in them. "I'm, like, 95% certain that it's one of these three," he said, and turned to look at his sister and niece. "How far away is that from here? And we should go get Mom, right? And... hope she doesn't think Dad's finally cracked, I guess."
And then something occurred to him. What if everyone liked being Space Pirates or Space Couriers or whatever. What if they were only going to visit? "You're going to come home, right?"