"As for the emotional interpretation, I don't know who or what entity would perform such manual adjusting on the Voidtrecker Express. It sounds like sabotage, to me. I don't think the train needs any such adjusting."

He waits while Ten-Nank is silent for that moment. "The train didn't really give us a specific reason for communicating with us now. I didn't feel I needed a reason, though. It was enough that the train had listened to those of us who asked for such communications. And as my question about the Voidtrecker Express being unregistered and why that mattered to the Ministry, I do still want an answer, if you're willing to give one."