There are people! Grey and blue, mostly. "Isabella T'Mir?" one of the blue ones asks her.

"Yes, hello."

"Welcome to Anitam! Why don't you come inside, can we get you anything?"

"I'm told the food should be safely edible but I'm not especially hungry if it's not convenient. Your English is excellent."

"Thank you. I live in Revelation, ordinarily, their dialect is slightly different but not as much as you'd expect with so distant a point of divergence."

"Oh, I see."

Inside they go. "We were told that you are giving planets warp, and that you expect the Federation to eventually learn of this and arrest you, and that we might be in a position to shield you and offer you a place to retire to?"

"Since you have it already, I'm allowed to be here; since you're not with the Federation, they don't have the ability to steamroll over you if you seem inclined to shelter me. So yes. I could also have prevailed on one of the planets I gave warp to that didn't go on to join the Federation but it's nice to have an invitation in hand."

"Given our own history we're very sympathetic to giving pre-warp civilizations warp." Someone brings drinks and snacks. "Not alcoholic," he says, taking something. "We're acquainted with Cam and Iobel."

"Thank you, I appreciate that." She samples a thing.

Thing is perfectly tasty. "Can I answer some questions for you before we head up to Lina?"

"My ship isn't designed to accommodate multiple people; an escort in separate ships would work fine, as would transferring me to a different vessel, which do you prefer?"

"Oh, I was imagining we'd fairy over, it's five minutes that way."

"...not to Lina, I mean when distributing more warp."

"Ah. Whichever suits you is fine. The crew probably won't speak much English."

"Separate ships seems easier then."

"Is it likely they'll attempt to arrest you while you're out scouting or contacting new worlds?"

"Whenever they find out what I've been up to they'll want to catch me wherever I am until they find that I have company, although they'd avoid attracting excess notice from the prewarp civilizations in the process."

"And when they find you have company you expect them to abandon this?"

"They may try to convince you to extradite me. I do not expect them to start a fight."

"Unless there have been significant misrepresentations about the nature of your activities Anitam is committed to ignoring extradition requests."

"My activities are as described!"

"Then they are very commendable!"

"Thank you."

They walk train-wards. "How much did you have a chance to look up about us?"