"It sounds crazy when you put it like that," she said quietly, yet she felt that is wasn't. "I know that my contact needs to know these things, but in order to do anything, she would need to inform her superiors, and they will ask questions."

Valdis paused, trying to word it in a way that Tony might understand.

"If you found some new technology that you didn't understand, what would you do with it? How would you approach it? How would you interact with it? And if you discovered it to be dangerous, to be some sort of weapon, what would you do about it?"