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their attempts to disguise themselves.
    "This time I went to the netjere with my concerns, but she is without guile and laughed at my paranoia. It was that night that a group of outsiders forced their way onto our ship, killing the Guardsman and his two subordinates. They roughly restrained us before taking control of the vessel and launching off the planet."
    "You're sure they were outsiders?" Crisstof asked.
    "Absolutely," she said. "Three of them were of a species I've never seen before, and two were from a race that the border worlds sometimes trade with."
    "We can try to figure out who this unknown species is later," Jason said absently. "What happened after they stole the ship?" He was so engrossed in the story he didn't notice Doc elbow Lucky and nod his way with a suppressed grin.
    "Much is unclear after that," Kalette said. "We were restrained and given narcotics to make sure we were only just functional enough to eat a little bit and sleep most of the day."
    "How is it you escaped?" Lucky asked.
    "One of the ruffians detaining us had developed an attraction for me," she said shyly, her eyes downcast. "He would lessen the amount of the drug I was given each day, trying to find a dosage that would leave me still disoriented, but more lucid and compliant.
    "We had landed on an unknown planet and this time he didn't administer the drug to me at all, believing that we had developed a rapport and mistaking my fear for acceptance. I was able to access the ship's com system while they were outside preparing to transfer us to a different vessel for security reasons. I was unable to move the netjere. She was always given the full dosage of the drug and was restrained to the walls of the cell.
    "After setting the com system on the ship to transmit an automated distress broadcast, including a description of your ship, I snuck out of an emergency hatch and ran across the landing pad. I snuck in while you were near the front of your vessel watching the events I had put in motion."
    "So the troops that surrounded the other ship and then chased us up out of the atmosphere were—" Jason left the question hanging.
    "Tetaran Security," Crisstof said quickly, perhaps even a bit evasively. "They were contacted by ConFed Intelligence when Kalette's signal was first detected."
    "I'm certain I don't want to know any of the details about that," Jason said with a wave. "So after that you just hid in the cargo bay for the rest of the flight?"
    "Essentially, yes," Kalette confirmed. "I pulled down some of the cargo netting and hid under it in case your cargo hold had active surveillance. I was able to hold out there until we arrived on this planet, though I'm not sure which planet this even is, and then found I was locked in. Thankfully your ship still had water and dried rations in the galley. I had planned to sneak out again when you came back aboard and reactivated main power."
    "Well, it sounds like you've had a hell of an adventure," Jason said, leaning back in his seat. "I assume this satisfies the accusations that we were harboring the Avarian Sovereign's daughter?"
    "It does," Crisstof nodded. "It may take some time to sort this out, however."
    "Not from where I'm sitting," Jason shrugged. "The Defiant has lots and lots of space for you to do your sorting. I'm not being deliberately rude but I'm not getting dragged into this."
    "Understood," Crisstof said with a curt nod before standing up. "I wasn't inclined to ask you anyway."
    "Take care of yourself, bud," Jason said, ignoring Crisstof and holding his hand out to Doc. "Don't let them drag you into something stupid like I used to."
    "This is something that we would have jumped on without asking back when Omega Force was still operating," Doc said quietly.
    "Those days are gone," Jason said with a forced smile. "No more Omega missions and no more blind charges into suicidal situations. We'll all live longer for it, I'm sure."
    "Yes, well ... I suppose there had to be something