"It vas an excident," Maxim repeated, holding up both his hands. Though it was really only the knowledge that they had a fighting mission imminent, and that Stacy and her tentacles were also around, that had him restraining the urge to start something right there.

He shook his head. "Hy tink ven dis iz hall over, ve schould go to de Sensoriums und see hu iz...betta. Vat do hyu tink?"