Max took a leisurely stroll down the hallways of the Cutter, giving the bridge crew time to notice that he was coming. There were internal monitors everywhere, the same as on every other ship, and they should be watching what was going on in the occupied areas unless there was some threat outside that had drawn their full attention.
Max hadn't made it far when they noticed that he had left the hangar bay and was coming their way, and he chuckled to himself as they panicked and hurried to clean the bridge before he got there.
In their nervousness, they had forgotten that he had the ability to read minds, so there was no need to hide the issue of "Exercises in Logic and Mathematics Monthly" in the storage box of the Captain's side table.
