So that's what he was fiddling with. The Omni..things. Barbara shook her head, "I'm afraid not," the fact that she wasn't even entirely certain how to work one of them, prevented her from ever possibly fixing one.

She sat across from the young man - who appeared to be younger than what she first thought - and pulled out her own communication device, lying it flat on the table. "I don't suppose you know why the transportation tubes brought us here and not wherever we were going?"