"You never know, we'd get a good price for you--and your uniform. Beka could settle her debts! Harper could buy that dirty holonovel he's been after." Trance quips right back. "It might be worth a fight. We'd come and visit you after all. Do museums have visiting hours or do you think we'd have to pay the entry fee?"

She smiled, giving him a few more seconds to contemplate the idea of a Commonwealth here, in this universe, before she spoke.

"It could be many things. We could be here to learn more about their United Federation of Planets, we could be here to influence certain areas, events in time. Or....whoever brought us here might have just been bored. I can't bring us back...I tried." and got brought back like a naughty child.

"How's the tea?"