Oh, it wouldn't be the first time our governments have cooperated to deceive the general populace, if that is indeed what's going on here. The technology is easily enough explained; any idiot with a working knowledge of simple circuits and the supplies can build a radio. They don't want us to have any access to the outside world at all.

[He shrugs.]

Of course it's a weak spot. Information always is. It's not just the technology.

An equally good question is: why us? If my brother had found out I'm alive the first thing he'd do wouldn't be to whisk me away to North America and secret me away, it'd be to take me home so Mummy could shout at me. So it's not likely to be my government. Yours I can't say, but it seems unlikely on the whole. The girl before is Canadian -- her government, perhaps? One might wonder, but then, what would any government want with a hyperactive pickpocket, crossbow or no?

Or a physicist, for that matter; why you, why here?

One question leads back to the other, you see. Who would want to hide us, and why?