“It’s still not like the other idea, which involved your own specialty. I still don’t see what made you suppose that the gas pillar from the volcano would be heavily charged enough to reflect your radio beam. How did that idea strike you?”
Zaino thought back, and smiled a little as the picture of lightning blazing around pillar, cloud and mountain rose before his eyes.
“You’re not quite right,” he said. “I was worried about it for a while, but it didn’t actually strike me.”
It fell rather flat; Camille Burkett, Ph.D., had to have it explained to her.