Her brow creases as she considers it. 'Because of my people's history, the Lorentzen equations are one of the few things I'm not allowed to share. Not with anyone out-of-sector. They're what led us to develop L-space travel. But L-space isn't wormholes, it's like your Moya's starburst, isn't it? Just more directed. A wormhole bridges two regions of spacetime in a much more immediate way.'

Yet she doesn't want him to think she'd refuse to help. It's not that. 'If you show me what you have, if any parts of the equation looks familiar to me, that'll make it easier for me to develop your work.' Without telling him that it came from Lorentzen, and revealing century-old secrets. 'We can do this, Crichton. If we work together we'll crack it, and we'll both get to where we want to go.'