"Place just gets better and better," Jim says, sighing. He rubs a hand over his face and shakes his head. "Given what happened to them, yeah -- "

He cuts off and frowns, thumb worrying along his lower lip. "So, this whole thing could be an experiment? An extraordinarily well organized thing that's meant to test and torture."

It was cruelly elegant, if so.

"This is why I stick to ships. Stationary things like this are bad news."