Gaeta hears that, looks over just in time to meet Tayrey's eye, and mutters a curse under his breath when she makes the abort mission signal. He grabs his crutches.

"Tayrey!" he calls over the babble of the crowd. "There you are! I forgot about the, uh, thing, can you come help me for a second?"

Look, just be impressed he's able to walk right now, he's not going to come up with a better cover story than that.