'Tec Roxanny Gauthier looked. In the wall display, what was rising past the edge of the Ringworld was no more than a blurred point. Gray Nurse was on patrol among the inner comets, far, far away from any Ringworld action. Roxanny asked, "Did you see where it came from?" "Same as the other. One of the big salt oceans, an island cluster." The fighter-recon crews didn't actually know anything. They were watching a wall display relayed from Control. The officers in Control could feed them any data they liked. That didn't stop crewfolk from speculating. Roxanny said, "The first one was too small. So's this one. They're not ships, they're just probes." "Fast, though. 'Tec Gauthier, what's that?" That, rising from the same Great Ocean island, was a larger dot, elongated, moving with the same amazing speed as the probe. "That's a ship," Roxanny said. Headquarters would have to respond to that! Gray Nurse herself would not fight.
