"But it greeted you when you first got it, right?" Zoe checked, and held her hand out for the communicator, so she could check for herself that it was properly synched to Titus. A quick flurry of fingers on the screen let her know that it was, and she got back to the communicator's main screen.

"Okay, look. See all these little images on it?" She gestured at the four icons on the screen. "These are how you can reach the other people on board, even if they're not around. Either get to talk to them, or write them messages. You just press them." Explaining the difference between e-mails, IMs and texts was going to be difficult, if he was as technologically inapt as she was beginning to think he might be. "Do you have phones, where you're from?"