"So what now?"
Ariad had said all he wanted to and of his own accord, he broke his connection to the mind link when he walked away leaving the group alone to plan their next set of actions.
After a period of silence, Keiko had brought up the question of what they were going to.dl, but they all looked towards Adam for his answer.
This was beyond what the authority they had as they were just members of the group, the decision lay with the captain.
"Well to be honest, he has helped us out in more ways than we give him credit for.
We might have been stuck here for ages without making headways, maybe even lost a member of two if he wasn't here.
And the ways of those hidden sects or clans, whatever name they go by are not the same as ours. It's obvious they have secrets they'd like to keep that way, secrets.
The question now is this, is it worth antagonizing him and possibly his whole clan for?"