The basic facts are in agreement between them. That's a starting point. Patience is easier that way. It's still the ocean, the same ocean that spat so many monsters at Murderbot that it became fishfood repeatedly before it ever hit the shore. Mariana's something. Perhaps ill will isn't the right word (Murderbot lacks enough information for a meaningful guess), but she's dangerous. It respects that.

It looks at the painfully optimistic girl, reminded of other optimists it knows, ones now an ocean away. "I agree there has to be a reason why this place wanted to show us these," it says, "I won't go so far as to say we had to see them." That's a step too far. A step too optimistic. A step asking for trouble. Murderbot thinks sometimes things that are too good to be true are just that.

"What are you proposing?" Murderbot asks. It sets the drone to mapping and imaging one of the ships. That's well within the drone's wheelhouse. However, as an intelligent drone, it cannot readily bring any physical objects to the surface. That fact causes a sinking sensation.