"What the...?" Lyta began to ask when the lights flickered off then almost immediately came back on. But she was quickly silenced when the dull hum that had been buzzing in the backs of the minds of the telepaths suddenly became substantially louder.

It wasn't debilitating, nothing that would knock them to the floor. But the change was sudden and sound just like someone had opened a communications signal and was getting nothing back but static.

"...something's wrong," she said, looking to Jono for confirmation.