On Mar 24, 2004, at 4:57 PM, Eris Reddoch wrote: > Bruce Johnson wrote: > >>> Arvitis comes wandering down the corridor yawning. He is wearing a >>> thin robe that is too small for him. The robe's sleeves only go to >>> mid forearm and the bottom of the robe is just above his bare >>> knees. >>> >>> Seeing Ricardo and Cory looking at the screen in the Crew's Commons >>> he stops and says, "Couldn't sleep either?" >>> >>> "What'ch looking at? Some sort of cop show?" he asks as he peers at >>> the screen scratching his ribs. >> >> Ricardo says. "Unfortunately not. This is real. remember Lessa, that >> reporter who interviewed us after we recovered the 'Mae Lee'? > > Arvitis nods, "Vaguely." > >> She stumbled onto some information that some very nasty folks want to >> keep unpublished. They killed her ex-husband, kidnaped her daughter, >> bombed her offices and framed her for it all. This is the tape they >> sent her. we're trying to determine when and where this was shot, and >> if possible, which ship that boarding ramp belongs to..." > > "Huh?" Arvitis looks blank for a second and then a light comes into his > eyes and he laughs, "No, *really*...what's going on?" > > He looks from Cory to Ricardo and back again before the grin on his > face > fades, "You're not serious are you? You are serious!" Ricardo says. "Yep. Lessa's in one of the staterooms sleeping off a regen session; the bomb burned her hands pretty badly. Jac has his aunt coming in first thing in the morning. You remember her, dear old Mazie, or Lady Ryobi, probably the deadliest woman on this planet..." > > He plops down in a chair and says, "Wow! Killed her husband, kidnaped > her daughter, bombed her offices...and framed her for it all." Arvitis > repeats then asks, "So, who did all this, and what's with the Hootish > family boarding that ship?" Ricardo (probably simultaneously with Cory) "Hootish?" -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs
