"Hello" You blinked your eyes and made sure that the person you just saw was Silver Wolf — she wasn't supposed to be here on the Astral Express

"What's wrong with you? You look like you just got shocked by an electric snail." She shrugs "Relax, I'm just dropping by for a visit. I was hacking through the dark regions of the Interastral Network a while ago and happened to see a signal from the Astral Express, so I thought I'd stop by to check it out."

"What you see in front of you is a hologram, just as harmless as the whale holograms you see floating around the Express. Here, see for yourself..." She poked your stomach. The part of her finger that touched your clothes disappeared. "Seeing is believing, right? If you're still not convinced, you can cut off the network connection on the Express and I'll disappear into thin air — until you turn it back on, of course"