"I'll be honest - I don't feel like I'm starvin', so I don't see how I could have been asleep for five days, but how the hell else would it make any sense for me to be out that long? Cryo, maybe?" But it's a rhetorical question, because it's obvious Amos doesn't know any better than he does.

Alex shook is head. "Nah. Whatever she is, she ain't Martian. Don't think she's from Earth, either - nothin' looks quite right. And we'd know, if the Belt ever managed to build somethin' like this. But considering everythin' that's been going on with the protomolecule, I wouldn't put it past some corporation to build somethin' like this in secret, somehow."

He shifted uncomfortably. "An' that don't explain where any of these other people came from, either. One of them was green--"