On Thursday 25 March 2004 13:30, Bruce Johnson wrote: > 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 keep unpublished.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?" > Looking at Arvitis Cory asks "Could you perhaps elaborate on your observations, in particular an explanation of Hootish?" -- Earl F Hampton http://hamiii.sytes.net/index.phtml
