[240103.05 Back room of Engineering...]
Having finished with his autopsy, D`Tarik walks back into the room where the security officers are still going over the crime scene. DT's still wearing his gloves, and his lab coat is now covered in green Rihan blood. tr`Anrex pauses from taking the holographic imaging sweeps to look over to the doctor a little wearily, "Um...how'd the autopsy go, rekkhai?" he asks, eyeing the bloodied lab coat.
"Went good..." DT answers in a distracted sort of way, glancing around the room, "I found na-thing at all. Na clues...na na-thing." he frowns a bit.
tr`Anrex nods at that and looks back to his imager, "Ie. That's about what we found too." he motions towards the computer console in the main room, "It seems the culprit did a sweep of the ship. We're na likely to find any evidence, rekkhai..."
D`Tarik looks around the room a moment longer, then turns and heads back out, heading for the hull breach.
[Ancient ch`Rihan...Villager's encampment...]
Rylan sits quietly, unknowingly in much the same spot that Vyynd had taken up surveillance of the villagers earlier, and slowly starts to deal another round of solitaire. Since he'd been up all night Rylan was looking more than a little tired, and didn't seem all that aware of his surroundings. Quietly, footsteps approached him. Just slightly behind, and to the side of the Arrain who busied himself with the cards laid out before him. Though the footsteps were almost silent, Ry hears them none-the-less, but shrugs the approaching faint sound off as belonging to a farmer who was used to being an early riser.
Vyynd steps forward slightly, bringing himself into Rylan's view if the boy had cared enough to look up from his cards. He bows and addresses Rylan in a quiet voice, "Jolan`tru rekkhai..."
Finally looking up from the cards, Rylan answers, "Vyynd...jolan`tru." He gathers his cards together and rises, asking the Daise`Dehno as he heads back quietly towards the crew's encampment in the early morning pre-dawn, "What say au about the incident last night?"
Resuming his pace next to Rylan, tr`Khaine questions, "Well...do au want all of the technical, official mumbo jumbo? Or just my take?"
Walking in a tired gait, Rylan answers, "Everything. The Leih will want to know."
Vyynd nods in accordance to that, "Ie. I was headed to him...but I hear he sleeps late sometimes, so I knew au would be up and could report as well..."
Ry nods at that, "Ie...that's my job." he pauses then asks again, "So, what...um...happened last night?"
"Well...*someone*...and we have na one reported in that area other then tr`Ehger..." Vyynd takes a moment to roam through his own thoughts, quickly sorting them out, "this someone...probably unstably psychotic...basically ambushed and killed the erien. Slowly..."
Ry nods at that, and muses quietly out loud, "Ie, killers never seem to do anything fast, do they?" he pauses to look at the ground he walked over a moment, before focusing on Vyynd once more. "And what says the evidence on who this...*someone* is?"
Vyynd shrugs slightly, almost imperceptibly, "They knew how to keep someone alive, as well as kill them. They know how to clean up a crime scene. This ahz`hhl < ass-* > set the comp to sweep the ship with a hypothermic sonic expulsion wave emission to clean all of the engineering portion of any hard evidence..."
Ry sighs a bit at that news, and begins to say something, but stops himself as he notices some of the other officers around them begin to rouse themselves from their sleep. Resuming the walk again, he remarks low, "Sure sounds like he knows what he's doing." he pauses a moment to glance around them as they walked, "Well...now what does security do in a case like this?" he raises a brow slightly as he looks to the Daise`Dheno.
"Ugh..strenuous hours of work..." Vyynd rubs his forehead, "I need to talk to *everyone*. Find out who was where. Get some suspects...if any. That's for the crew, anyway." he pauses and looks back at Rylan, "What of the villagers? They'd be more likely suspects...?"
Ry almost smirks at that, "Na. Na the villagers, Vyynd. What would they know of a hypothermic sonic expulsion wave?" he chuckles a bit at that thought, before suddenly turning more serious, "Na. It has to be io of us." then adds quickly, "Io of the crew members, I mean." he pauses slightly as that thought ran itself through his mind, and he glances at Vyynd a moment with a suspicious raise of his brow before quickly shaking his head and looking away again.
Vyynd caught that look, and almost keels over from both fatigue and laughter. "Please Rylan! Au know me...and au know the Tal`Shiar." he pauses to smile at the tired-looking RS, "Think there'd be a *body* left to autopsy?" he smirks, "Okay, so the villagers are out. Ehger's out. Who found him?"
Ry, who'd been smiling a little sheepishly at Vyynd's laughter, pauses to think a moment, scratching the back of his head in thought, "Um...that was... tr`Ahan." he shrugs as his hand lowers back to his side once more, "I sent him in to look for him when tr`Ehger didn't answer his ip."
"Okay." Vyynd nods slightly, "I need to speak with him then, followed by the rest of the crew..." his mind finally quiets on an idea, and he takes out his isd and pulls up a layout of the ship. "What other ways out are there for the attacker?"
Ry thinks about that a moment, "There's lots of ways out, actually..."
"Lovely...." Vyynd looks about the layout of the ship on his isd, "I'll need to check each io. Don't suppose we can safely quarantine the *entire* ship?"
Not sounding thrilled with that request, Ry nods anyway. "Well, actually... ie." he answers, then adds with a wave of a hand around the crew's encampment, "But we still need repair work to be done. Any way au can quarantine for just a day for security sweeps...so we can get back to work?"
"Ie, actually." Vyynd nods at that, "Let's sweep the entire ship...quarantine only the possible exits until security can scan them for any traces. I'll have them start on that." then adds after a moment's hesitation, "But there is the possibility that the attacker is still inside the ship, ie?"
Ry almost nods in agreement to that question, but stops and looks at Vyynd, "Actually, I had DT do a lifesign scan after we found the body. The only lifesigns we found were the security team coming in..." finding a suitable rock near where he could keep an eye on the shelter Katara was in, Rylan takes a seat as he finished his statement.
"And where was D`Tarik at the approximate time of the murder?" Vyynd suddenly asks, then adds with a raise of his brow, "Where were au, in fact...?"
Ry looks up at Vyynd surprised, "DT?" he almost grins at the suggestion, "Au don't think he...." then suddenly frowns as Vyynd's second question hit him, "What's that supposed to mean? 'where were au?'" he asks insulted, "Au don't think *I* had anything to do with this?"
"Would au rather I rule out everyone on the ship, as I should technically trust them all?" Vyynd questions tiredly, "And then we have a *ghost* who murdered io of our men. And I doubt he put himself on the pipe..." he shakes his head slightly, "Sorry Rylan, but I can't believe au know where D`Tarik was, until I know where au were...?" Unknown to the boys, D`Tarik had exited the hull breach, and approaches the two boys.
"I was wandering around out here..." Ry shrugs and looks around to the encampment. "After I finished helping set up some shelters...someone's sure to have seen me...." he pauses a moment, then looks up at Vyynd once more, "And DT was probably helping out the villagers and injured crew members. Au know that's what he would've been doing. If someone's hurt or sick, DT helps..." he suddenly smirks and adds, "Timeline na withstanding." he said in reference to the farm girl DT had saved.
As Rylan spoke, Vyynd taps busily into his isd network for all security personnel to quarantine all possible exits of the ship from the rear room of engineering at the time of the murder. Along with that, he sends a layout of those exits. Rylan, watching Vyynd busily working over the isd, raises a paranoid brow of his own, "And just where were *au* Vyynd?" he questioned with an almost irritated tone, "Tal`Shiar uniform na withstanding...au`rh just as capable as any io else to have done this..." he trails off, noticing D`Tarik's approaching form and nods towards the smaller boy, "Jolan`tru, DT."
"True...." Vyynd admits, "So au and DT are clear...Aeris was, and probably still is, sleeping..." he pauses to nod at the Medical Daise, "Jolan`tru..." then answers Rylan's question, "I was all around...mostly with the villager camp...so I doubt anyone would be able to vouch for me, aside from myself. That's na great..."
DT looks between them a moment, then suddenly asks, "What's going on?"
Ry smirks at Vyynd, but quickly covers it, "Na. That's na good, Vyynd. But even so, I doubt au did it." he turns his head to look at D`Tarik, "Seems Vyynd wants us to provide alibis for the murder..."
"So au must know where I was?" D`Tarik looks up at Vyynd, "I went for a walk. I couldn't sleep like I usually can't."
Vyynd looks back to the doctor, "D`Tarik...I'm afraid...unless someone saw au around ninte walk, or sometime during it, that is na a solid alibi."
"It's na?" D`Tarik asks confused, "I went for a walk...the closest thing I have to a witness is that I told Emni I was going for a walk. She went to sleep..."
"Ah.." Vyynd begins to blank his mind, and pokes into D`Tarik's briefly, "I'll have to speak to Emni, as well as everyone else..."
Rylan pauses to look at DT and offers hopefully, "Well, if he walked around the camp like I had done, then someone must have seen him."
"I didn't walk around the camp." D`Tarik shook his head, "It was more like, around the field. But somebody may have seen me leave the camp." he agrees.
Vyynd starts putting up a list of suspects and cleared people on his isd, allowing security personnel to report in alibis and witnesses to clear people on the network, when he finally picks up the impressions of D`Tarik's thoughts:
..... Vyynd thinks I did it... I wonder if I cloned him, if that would help him find the killer faster... Rylan needs about four extra arms.... that walk was nice... I found na-thing in that autopsy.... As usual, D`Tarik's thoughts run rapidly from one topic to another, each flowing into the next, creating a great jumbled mass of ideas and concepts. But one thing was clear....D`Tarik had, in fact, gone on a walk.
Vyynd zones back into the field from D`Tarik's insane thoughts, ignoring the new found visions of Rylan with four arms. "Ie..." he mumbles, and crosses D`Tarik off the list of suspects. Looking at the RS, he reports in conclusion to his orders, "The ship's exits have been quarantined, and are being swept. Once cleared they'll be re-opened. Repairs will be able to commence by afternoon today."
"Hann`yyo, Vyynd." Ry nods, and passes a glance off to his chrono as he stood once more, "I'll pass that along to the Leih when he wakes." he pauses, then adds with a smirk, "Oh...should I tell him he's to have an alibi as well?"
"Can I rightfully suspect him?" Vyynd questions in all seriousness.
The good-humored expression on Ry's face dies at that, "Are au serious? Vyynd...he's the Leih!" he scolds the other boy, "I doubt highly he'd kill off a random erien! Areinnye, if he was that mad, why na kill io of us?"
"Since he's sleeping, he probably has a solid alibi." Vyynd answers, "I'll check on that, *then* suspect him, okay?"
Ry smiles again as he heads towards the shelter, "Ie...I'm going to check on Katara now, if we're done here?"
"Ie," Vyynd nods, looking over the information coming to his isd from the other security people, "Please inform everyone to report to my...tent...as soon as they can. Hann'yyu, both of au." he nods to both Ry and DT.
Ry answers that request with a tired, "Fine, fine, fine...." he pauses a moment near the shelter door and turns, "Any particular time for that meeting, Vyynd? Or just leave it open with 'as soon as we can'?"
"Well...I've already met with au..." Vyynd answers, "Unless au remember some people au can vouch for, or if anything else comes up... please stop by." he bows, and heads for his own tent.
Ry smirks over at DT as the Tal`Shiar officer walked off. "Well...with all the people in this crew, this should keep Vyynd busy for awhile." he shakes his head and heads into the shelter to find Katara still asleep.
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