Aeryn has no idea what John is doing now. Waving his hands, wiggling his fingers, and grinning away like an overblown grolash. Which, fine, half of that can be written of as John Being John. The way even Zhaan says That's just Critchon. Doing odd things no one finds familiar, with dedicated inability to give up and assimilate.

But that still doesn't actually answer her question to him. Doesn't explain how he knows just where they are.

It's only marginally not Exceedingly Frelling Annoying that he encourages the man to start talking next because she won't have a problem taking liberties from someone else keeping things from her, someone who is not part of her team. Maybe it's her temper, or the fact she likes this place less the more she's still standing, but she's not positive the officer isn't mostly useless himself, too.

Especially because someone with magic powers supposedly just took them from their ship as part of 'a test' for other people.

"Except for the part where we're now stuck. Here." In this utterly foreign place. "If he's even telling the truth."