She wants to know in what direction they intend to be travelling, yes. She suspects that the answer is 'they have no idea', and that they in fact probably don't know what the ship's current acceleration is, and are unaware that it has left their own ship far far behind by now, and that if anyone hails the ship they're going to have no idea how to handle it, and she's hoping that a few questions they can't answer will drive this pdint home and get them to concede that they have no business keeping the actual crew of a starship away from its bridge. 

Gaaaaah. 

What Nayoki really wants to do is demand that they stop sedating Leareth, and wake him to ask HIM what to do next, but. That would be stupid, and unhelpful in the long run. 

Instead she Mindspeaks the non-tired mage who Gated over and has since headed out to explore the ship. 

:Can you - discreetly read one of the other crew - find out how to cease this ship's acceleration and return to Julie's ship - pass that on to the bridge - also try to find out where they were traveling before we arrived -: 

Deep breath. She refocuses on Naomi. 

:Well, our plan was to find Anderson Dawes: 

"Uh huh. Do you know where he is?" Almost definitely Ceres, but she again wants to emphasize how far the psychic people are out of their depths, here.

Okay is this person teasing her on purpose. 

:Do you know where he is?: Nayoki counters, tossing in a slight push of Mindhealing to force an answer. 

"Yes," she says, and then looks mildly surprised. "He's usually on Ceres, at least. We could get there in a week at a fifth, which is what the Roci usually cruises at, except I'm not totally sure your patients are stable enough for the flip and burn." This sentence is definitely intended to be incomprehensible because these people need to realize how profoundly they do not know how to make navigation decisions in a starship.

After their trip to the Moon of Velgarth, Nayoki is actually fairly sure that she understands this - not the units, 'a fifth' is still baffling to her, but the principle at least. 

:Julie: she sends, privately. :Is it true that Anderson Dawes is probably on Ceres? They claim the ship could reach Ceres in a week - is that too slow, should we attempt to Gate there -?: 

It's probably an utterly absurd Gate-distance, but several thousand - if not million - times less absurd than the Gate from Velgarth to Earth, which the Proto managed just fine - all they need is a memory from someone here who's been to Ceres before...

He's probably on Ceres, yeah. Gating there - didn't know you could do that - yeah, that'd be good. Don't know that a week is too slow but - it could be -

:Have you been to Ceres?: 

I lived there for two years.

:Right. Good. Where - would be a good place for us to arrive, can you picture it...?: Pause. :I am guessing it would be a good idea to wait a little, so you can rest and the machines can feed you, but I do want to be ready just in case: 

...my apartment? I'm still paying rent on it, it should be empty...she tries to visualize it.

:Thank you: 

Nayoki memorizes the visual as clearly as she can. (Which is pretty clearly; she's a strong Mindspeaker, not to mention her Mindhealing lets her slightly boost Julie's visual-imagination faculties specifically to help out, and also she has extensive Gate-training.) 

Once she has it, she - slots it into the search-destination for a Gate spell, but doesn't complete the spell, just holds it in place. 

And, diffidently, Mindtouches the Proto. 

:Look at this?: 

???

She...sighs, and lets the Gate search-spell run a little further - spooling out and out and out and out - 

It's not working. Maybe it's too far.

Gah. 

She - tries to hold up the procedure that she's following, here, the exact thing she's holding in the search-spell, she tries to hold that up and show it to the Proto - 

And, and the same time, :- Julie, what are Ceres' characteristics - is it a moon, an asteroid, what is near it -?:

It's an asteroid? It's in the Belt - the asteroid belt, there's a whole ring of them, but Ceres is one of the biggest - the settlement's built into it and kinda through it -

Nayoki attempts to pass this set of specifications along to the Proto, just in case it can do a better job with them than she can. 

The Proto, which seems much dumber than it was a few hours ago, cannot.

Sigh.

:Leareth could figure it out, I think: she says to Julie. :I cannot on my own. But - hopefully he will be well enough to try much sooner than a week. I - think probably in the meantime, we ought to work with the ship’s crew and start traveling there the long way:

After a pause. :- They do not seem to like or trust the ‘OPA’ organization or your colleague Anderson Dawes. I am hoping this will not be a problem, but I wanted to warn you:

The oxygen mask makes it hard to talk, but Julie tries. The woman's a Belter. "Anderson Dawes piss you off?"

"Seems like his plan here wasn't so good, doesn't it."

"Anubis was well-armed. If we known that, maybe we hadn't gone, yeah. But - they use this thing on Eros -"

"Why Eros?"

"Earth and Mars won't miss it, yeah?

Who sent you after the Anubis? I hid it. Should've been very hard to find."