It's been working so far. [He's pretty sure the boats are alien ships, just given the circumstances, so it doesn't seem like an oversimplification to him. The rest is just idle conjecture, confused small talk, but Hope seems to appreciate it.]

Antoinette? [Don't laugh, a punny ant name still sounds better than "number 322" or whatever she was.] She came in with me. I haven't tried with anything else, the insects here are weird.