He smiled ruefully. "It's more worry about what everyone else is going to think of what I might have done, to be honest. This is a massive discovery, potentially as big as going public the first time. I'm not sure I should keep it a secret, after what happened with Flynn here. I'm not sure I even can. I vanished mid-transit. That's a big deal." Panic and instant news.

"I think you can understand how I really don't want my friends and family to look at me and...wonder. And I trust them. It's the competitors and the anti-program lobby I don't trust at all."

Oddly easy to talk to this young lady, not of his world and yet not affected by his alternate except by absence.