It would have only done that if Cricket was talking directly to him or if Tam wanted to include him in the conversation.
"Well . . . I trust Rebus, I suppose. Is that good enough for now?"
"Well, thanks anyway. And you're visiting the Dreamsmith? What for?"
Yeah, we could do something like that!
space station
somewhere in the solar system
that was funded by the government for years and now is redundant so is kind of just existing and has a sort-of self-governing body
totally not stealing this from something else . . .
"I mean, so could I, but I'm not going to," she replied.
Then . . . she realized what she'd said and looked away uncomfortably.
"Not a word, please. I realize what I said and I don't want to deal with that again right now."
"Yikes."