The Light is Always there

[aipsylon]

"Not at all, anything I can help with while we talk?" He asked. waiting for an answer before starting to speak himself. "I would like to thank you for your help on the last mission, your suggestions and execution were both excellent, as was your intuition about what might be useful next. Also I thank you for use of your ship. There was one thing that concerned me though."
His voice lowered, quieting to little more than a whisper. "The ally that we had on the screens. What do you know about them?"