"Yeah." Zephyr doesn't look back until he realizes X has stopped moving; then he glances back, beckons for X to keep with him. "That's the one. She was having a very bad... week. Month. I don't know." His sense of time when it comes to scale is... not wholly the best.

He shakes his head at X's question, pressing slowly onward. "Probably not. A local spacetime portal or warp still wouldn't technically be on this ship, and-- it might have been a powerful illusion, maybe. Such things can catch people strongly. My partner once..." He shakes his head. No, not important. "But that wouldn't account for what's happened to the ship. I don't think what happened to these people happened on board."