If he wasn't Hyperion, or Dahl, or any other corporation - and Patrick was as sure as a piece of metal roughly affixed to a staff of wood could be that he was telling the truth - then she had no reason to fear this man. She did have a gun after all. And all of these people seemed extremely primitive (it was kind of nice to see abundant plant life around - not because of any innately good quality of plant life, but because it was a nice change of pace from the blasted wastelands of Pandora), and so posed little threat.

"Tannis. Doctor Patricia Tannis," she said. The mania in her voice had calmed somewhat.

"...what is this place?"