"Oh yeah, sure," he says, happy to delegate some tasks. He'd felt the same way when they were planetside - he hadn't much to do and he was hurting for some work. Any work.

"Are you getting along with any of the agrii?" he asks. He thinks maybe they'll get along better with Max - she's young for a human and they're young for agrii, so maybe they have some things in common.

Steve, who's not even that old, definitely acts older than his years. Maybe they don't like that.