On Mar 5, 2006, at 6:46 PM, Eris Reddoch wrote: > A couple of days into the jump between Serbia and Newton, Jac asks > Ricardo to convene a meeting of the partners, and other crew members. > > "Captain, I think we need to discuss Lessa and Rachel's presence > aboard the ship, so you might want to exclude Del." Jac says, > "Unless you've decided we can trust him with the possibility that we > have a wanted woman aboard and are hiding her." Ricardo shakes his head. "He's the damned chief engineer, Jac, odds are he already knows she's aboard, just because of the life support readings. I'll sound him out..." OOC> Damn! Damn! DAMN!!!! I KNEW I forgot something before we left Mark!! We needed to get a Richelieu-ish "get out of jail free" note for Lessa from Mazie before we left.IC> Ricardo catches Del in a quiet moment in the Engineering spaces. "Del, remember you told me about that little girl on your last flight, seemed very un-Hooter like?" "Well, in fact she wasn't. She'd been kidnapped on Mark to use as leverage against her mother who was in possession of some rather incriminating documents. "Well, that whole bit of excitement the other night, ships blasting off unexpectedly, racing across the planet, firefights that no one admits to having..." Ricardo shrugs, "Well that was all decoy for an extraction: to wit, one little girl, to be reunited with her mother, which she was, quite happily." Ricardo sighs, and continues. "And, as events would have it, the mother is, well, sort of kind of wanted at the moment, for a variety of crimes. She was framed, there is proof of it and in the hands of the *right* authorities on Mark, but to the outside world she's still in trouble with the law, because it's all tangled up in some rather nasty on and off-world plotting against the government." "With me so far?" -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs
