[240103.18 ch`Rihan....]
At the crime scene itself, security staff are running through the field on their hurried way to lend the Daise a hand in conducting a sweep of the area. Most wait a short distance away from the 'marked off' quarantine area - most looking as if they're trying not to get sick. Rylan stands a little back from the outside edge of the ropes that marked the 'do not cross' line, waiting for Vyynd to start giving off a report, and trying not to look at the bodies. The struggle to keep his eyes focused somewhere else was a losing battle, as once more his eyes glanced over and saw the message made out of the crew members' belongings; his own kalen included - which to his horror - was now caked with green blood. He finally managed to pull his eyes away from it to look up at Vyynd with a slightly raised brow before turning away again.
Vyynd kneels outside of the scene, scanning over it all for a moment. Reassuring himself that the perimeter that was now roped off was adequate, he called to Aeris to bring his quarantine equipment to an area a little further up stream. Her voice came back almost immediately after his request, "Ie...bringing everything actually. Almost to au now..."
Vyynd looks to Rylan, knowing he was aware of the conversation, then sprints up stream briefly. After a quick rendezvous with Aeris, he runs back, placing two huge bags on the ground. He stops and glares at Rylan, "Au moved...."
Surprised, Rylan first looks down to his feet, then around himself. "Na I didn't. I'm right where I was." then he looks back to the agent, "And why couldn't I move anyway? If anything, I'd be moving *away* from...the bodies... na *towards* them."
Vyynd brings his glare back to Rylan, "Ie, sorry....paranoia...." then shifts his attention back over the area as he pops open his first equipment bag.
Glancing over to the other security guards around the perimeter, none of which came near the 'quarantine zone', Ry asks "Aren't they supposed to help au do a sweep?" then after a slight, uncomfortable pause as he watches Vyynd root through the equipment bag, he adds "Or is that why au wanted me to stay here?"
"Na. Na io can seem to stomach the scene...so I'll do it alone." Vyynd shrugs it off, then adds in a whisper under his breath, "Or maybe na io can handle the nightmares...."
"Ie, well...I have my own share of nightmares," Ry shrugs, "but I'm na Tal`Shiar agent. I wouldn't know the first thing of what au would need me to do." he steps back from the scene altogether to give Vyynd a little more room to work with. Finding a decent rock a short distance away, Ry takes a seat to watch curiously the proceedings of the Daise`Dehno.
"Never mind that..." Vyynd looks around again, then pulls out several huge, mechanical poles from the bags, and proceeds to toss them to a few select agents around the zone. Instructing the officers to place the poles firmly into the ground at their location, Vyynd waits until each pole is in place, then steps around and activates each through the keypad. Following him, the poles spring up shoot inward above the scene, above the tree, meshing themselves together and forming an almost comfy-looking little tent above and around the crime scene. The tent doesn't go over the river, but Vyynd has still roped off some of that as well.
Securing his coat and gloves, Vyynd steps inside the entrance of the crime-scene tent and holds the flap open to look at Ry. "Au want to save me the reports later, or save ninte-self the unsettled stomach?"
Fixing Vyynd with an unreadable look, Ry gets up and heads over, "I think after our last planet, I can handle this."
"Good call." Vyynd watches Ry into the tent, then shoots a look to the surrounding guards before closing the flaps to the tent and securing them sealed. He turns to Ry and the now-indoor scene, "Any professional analysis from ninte department?"
This takes Ry by surprise, and he asks in an irritated tone, "From *my* department? As what? RS or OPS? Neither of which department is qualified for this!" he looks around him, "In my 'professional opinion'....au`rh looking for a nut-case." he nods, his expression suddenly turning angry as his eyes fell on an item contained within the message, "...A nut-case who's a Dead-Man!" he declares, reaching for Katara's necklace.
Vyynd's cloak flies as a disruptor pistol suddenly appears, it's turret aimed at Ry's arm. "Ninte arm *will* be gone before au touch that...."
Ry glares back at Vyynd, "That psycho took that from Katara!" he points angrily at the object in question.
"Ie. And that isd from me, and that kalen from au....I would assume...." Vyynd glares at Rylan's arm which had still not been pulled back, then sighs, "I'll get that done with first, and return it to au and Katara..." he offers with a shrug, hoping Ry agrees and keeps his arm.
Still glaring at Vyynd, and trying to reign in his own out-of-control temper, Ry finally agrees quietly, yet still not moving back, "I don't want her to know it was here. Au give it to me when au'rh done. I'll tell her I found it near the camp."
"Understood..." Vyynd agrees, twitching his gun and still waiting for Rylan to step back.
Having had his condition agreed to, Ry does step back from the item entirely, silently counting to ten, and forcing himself not to pace the 'tent' in frustration. "Maybe....I should let au do what au need to do here...." he said very slowly and precisely, an idea starting to form in his head, "I...maybe...should wait for ninte report....while I gather my own...." he looks back toward the agent.
Vyynd smiles as he lowers his weapon, immediately the pistol disappears under his coat once more. "If au insist. I figured au would enjoy knowing if I found any evidence first...it shouldn't take long for the initial reports...."
"Ie..." Ry nods and heads towards the door, "I still want a full report. Send everything to me immediately...as au find it...through my isd. I'll need that information...Oh!" he suddenly spins around a moment, walking backwards towards the door, pointing an almost excited finger Vyynd's way, "Send through what au have from the first victim as well...." he turns back to face the door again, "I'll need that information to show to someone."
Vyynd pauses at the last thing Rylan said, "There was na-thing. It...swept the area with a hypothermic sonic expulsion wave...na-thing." he grumbled angrily. Opening a console on the inside of the tent and hooking his isd into it, Vyynd begins to run a series of intense scans on the newest crime-scene.
Rylan raises a brow, and pauses near the entrance to the tent, "Na-thing? Na even from the autopsy?" he asked a little sarcastically, "I meant *everything* Vyynd. Every little piece of information!" growing excited, he heads out the door, his voice carried back to Vyynd by the sheer excited-volume of it, "The weapons used..the wounds...*everything*! And I want copies of the holographic sweeps as well! EVERYTHING VYYND!!!" he shouts as he walks at a steady brisk pace back towards the ship, making a few of the gathered security officers take a step back from him as he passed.
To save himself from having to shout, Vyynd answers through his ip, "The reports have been waiting for au..." he grumbles, sending all of the reports from the initial incident through the network again; the suspect/crew list, the security personnel reported at the scene of the crime, the autopsy report... literally everything.
Coming back through the ip, in a strange mix of anger, sarcasm and excitement that borders on a maniac episode, Ry's almost-cheerful voice resounds back, "Yeah, well send it through again!! On to this isd!!" the frequency to the isd suddenly appears on Vyynd's terminal. "I need to have it all for a presentation!" Ry grins widely as the info starts downloading itself as he spoke, "Hann`yyo! Keep that info coming too!"
Vyynd looks over the new scan results, squinting in thought. tr`Khaine smiles and intensifies the scan, then begins performing basic and advanced procedure for evidence clearing, sweeping for prints and fibers on every possession.
[A short time later...]
After a short, brisk walk Rylan heads up to the hull breech of the ship. Whistling happily, he nods his head with a cheery smile to the guard stationed there as he heads into the ship itself.
A few moments later, and Vyynd's voice comes in over Ry's ip, "Umm, rekkhai....which crew personnel are cleared for use of personal cloakers?"
Pausing in the corridor a moment to think about it, just outside the bar room doors, Ry answers, "Ah...let's see..." his brain finally registers just where he was standing, and he heads into the bar with a slight shrug and heads over to the counter, "That would be all of security, any io listed in ninte striker units, and...." he reaches around and grabs a bottle of Rhennish then turns to head out of the bar again, "all Tal`Shiar agents, of course." Now on his way to the computer core, he opens the bottle as he walks and takes a drink, then adds with a shrug and an unseen smirk, "Course...the equipment storage lockers are on the ship....any io could grab io. Areinnye, I could if I wanted to right now!"
"Beeeecause..." Vyynd tries to bring Ry back to the question at hand, "Well, an intensified sweep has found *extremely* faint residual emissions from a cloaker all around the area..."
After another short time, Ry enters the computer core, and heads over to a console. Downing the bottle in his hand a little bit more, he sets it down near by, then begins to turn on the juice to one of the holochambers. As Vyynd's words finally sink into his head, he pauses to raise a brow slightly, "Can au get an estimated time on that Vyynd? Perhaps narrow the time of the crime down to a few hours? I mean...how long does it take for emissions to fade away? Eh?"
Sending the newest scan results to Rylan's isd, Vyynd continues to read off his findings, "And, let's see....fibers...standard issue uniform - nah Tal`Shiar... with a personal cloaking device... standard issue boot tracks...don't get ahead of ninte-self there, Rylan." he smiles slightly, "Approximately...." he sends the RS the time charts, "Midnight into the early morning...."
Ignoring the 'slow-down' message entirely, Rylan grabs up the bottle of Rhennish and heads out the door again, this time towards holochamber number one, "And what size boot tracks, Vyynd?!" he suddenly interjects excitedly; like Sherlock on the trail of Moriarty, "That would narrow it down even more, eh? Eh?!"
Vyynd presses a finger against his ip as he hears a report from some security monitors, "Rekkhai, I suppose au know something about holobay io being powered up?"
"IE!!" Ry nods with a wide grin, "I know! I'm the io that powered it up!"
"Aaaaannnnnd....." Vyynd questions, then adds after a silent moment, "Do au have a reason for this, or just trying to get some entertaining?"
"Oh, I just figured now would be a good time to do what everyone's been on my back about for awhile now!" Ry calls cheerfully back through the ip, "Hey! How about that boot-size, eh??"
Vyynd takes a moment to cross-reference the boot size with the crew listings, "Weelll...that'd narrow the list to basically most of the male crew....size 11... top of the list is io, Rylan tr`Tuhmek!" Vyynd laughs through the line.
Ry almost chokes on the last of the Rhennish, the sputtering can be heard through the ip a moment, before Ry's suddenly too-serious voice comes back through, "Now that wasn't funny, Vyynd!" he pauses to look at the bottle in his hand a moment, then tosses the empty aside, "Au made me waste it..."
"Awww, sorry Ry..." Vyynd says mockingly, "Orange juice doesn't cut it anymore?" he smiles as he continues to perform every insane scan known to his devices.
Ry grins again, tapping on the control panel to holochamber number one, "Never did!" he laughs through the ip as the whirrrr of the holochamber's door opens.
Vyynd begins to send Ry some radical information, "Let's see...the current grass height would be, an average of 4", has been growing for many, many years...the soil is quite healthy compared to the rest, as it is indigenously beside a stream...though it seems the landing of the ship slightly effected the immediate area..."
This whole report made Ry stand stock-still in confusion for a moment, before he finally grumbles through the ip, "Oh, for Elements' sake, Vyynd - spare the farm report! I don't need that kind of information! Had enough of that when I was a kid..." he shakes his head and walks into the holochamber.
Vyynd clicks his other isd's replay button, resounding Rylan's own recorded voice over the ip, "EVERYTHING VYYND!!!" after a second of silence, Vyynd replies, "Only following orders, rekkhai..." as he sends more relevant scan results to Rylan's isd.
Laughing at the playback as the Khensia turns a startled eye towards Rylan, he holds up the isd and waves it towards her a moment before tossing it to her desk. "Have I got a job for au!" he gives a good-natured wink to the dumbfounded councilor.
Remotely authorizing Rylan's running of the Khensia program to save him the security procedure in effect at the moment, Vyynd asks through the ip, "And what will she be able to tell au, Rylan...that we have an approximately 5'10", 175 - 200 pound, male Rihan running around with a ...Ferengi engery-whip, a personal cloak, and standard-issue military clothing...with insane paranoia, possibly schizophrenia, pertaining to certain crew members being 'unworthy'...?"
"Ie!!" Rylan's happily excited voice comes back through the ip, "And THIS Khensia..." he adds with an almost evil-looking grin, "Knows intimate details of every crew member on this ship. And since it would be against her programming to *na* tell us who she believes it may be in her *professional opinion* as it would put the lives of other crew members at risk...I believe...." he leans almost casually against the edge of her desk to look down at her with that same little grin, "That she can narrow our choices down even more."
"Hnaev, Rylan....she can pinpoint the killer with this much information...na?" Vyynd asks, still continuing to run procedure, nearly finished with the personal items now. "And I have ninte necklace of Katara's...." A few moments later and Vyynd steps out of the tent, pocketing his own isd's and closing the tent entrance once more, sealing it to all outside access other then his own, and heads towards the ship.
"Ie..." Ry nods and answers Vyynd's first question, "But DT programmed her to na come right out and say anything against her...clients." Ry winks at the uncomfortable-looking Khensia, "Or her program will wipe itself out. But, to narrow down the list to two or three top choices... weell... that's na going against her programming." he pauses slightly as the grin vanished from his face and he stared at the Khensia intently, "Is it, my dear?" As Vyynd's last message finally reached his manic comprehension, Ry suddenly brightens again, "Hann`yyo, Vyynd! I'll come to claim it in a moment!" he grins back at the Khensia as she picked up the isd of information.
Rapping a fist against her desk to get her attention once again, Ry nods to her and orders with the same little grin on his face once more, "See to it that Vyynd tr`Khaine, as well as myself, receive ninte list of possibilities." he turns to head out the door, "Just send the info through, then we can shut down ninte program and save us all some power!"
[A little bit later...]
Heading now back out of the ship, Ry steps just outside the hull breech before he halts for a moment and turns to look around himself. Stepping back into the ship - to the confusion of the guard standing nearby - Ry heads back towards the bar again. He no sooner stepped into the bar room, then he shakes his head and turns to head back out again.
Like a jack-in-the-box, Vyynd stands up suddenly from behind the bar, holding up a bottle of Rhennish, and says to Ry's form as it disappears out the doors again, "Umm, Jolan`tru...." then smiles, waiting for the inevitable.
After a full minute had passed, Ry heads back into the bar with a big grin on his face, "Vyynd! There au are!" he heads over and takes the bottle out of the agent's hand, "Hann`yyo!" he goes to open the object, then stops to look back at Vyynd instead, "Au know...Katara will probably kill me if she finds out I'm in here...." he looks back at the object he held, "And with a bottle in my hand, na less...." Vyynd doesn't say anything to this, only glares at the Rihan before him waiting for the other to make up his mind. Feeling the glare, Ry suddenly looks up again and asks with an innocent shrug, "What?"
"Want me to do au a favor....or a *favor*?" Vyynd asks quietly.
Ry raises a brow at that, "Au`rh growing cryptic in ninte old age, Vyynd...." then realizing the two were alone in the bar, Ry takes a paranoid look around himself before questioning, "And what exactly do au mean by a *favor*?"
"Well...the favor would be na realizing au have that bottle." Vyynd glances at the object in question held in Rylan's hand, "The *favor* would be an actual favor, and...." he suddenly snatches the bottle back from Rylan, "It would be saving ninte girlfriend the lost product..."
Looking confused for just a moment, Rylan suddenly grins, "Ie! Good call!" he nods, heading out the door again, "Hann`yyo, Vyynd!"
"Na problem...." Vyynd says to Ry's retreating back, then jumps over the bar and heads out after him. As tr`Khaine enters the corridor, he sees Ry's form disappearing around the corner with the happy long stride of his. Quickly catching up with him, Vyynd asks curiously, "Don't au want Katara's necklace?"
Ry suddenly slaps his forehead and exclaims, "Oh, ie! I forgot!" he turns towards Vyynd and takes the object held out to him. Slipping it into a pocket he says, "Don't tell her where au found it. It'd freak her out."
"Agreed..." Vyynd complies, "Oh, I had to inform her of the incidents. tr'Ehger was wounded by the "killer" - then died shortly afterward.....understood?"
"Ie!" Ry nods, "Good call..." his brow furrows a moment, "Why'd au have to go and tell her for? I already told her to stay around groups of people when possible cause it's a primitive culture and all. That worked just fine. There wasn't a need to scare her." he shakes his head at that last thought, then heads happily out of the hull breech once more.
Vyynd once more falls into step beside the boy again, "There was a need to keep her informed, and cautious....must keep her protected.... " He taps Ry's forehead, throwing the boy a goofy face.
Rylan grins and nods at that, "Ie!! That's just what I was thinking, too!" then suddenly raises a rather serious brow, "Only my way was better." A second later, Ry resumes walking, the happy expression once more returning to his face.
As Ry strode off ahead, Vyynd quietly follows behind him. Focusing solely on the boy's retreating form, Vyynd begins to creep his way into the other's mind.....
{{Elements what a gorgeous day! Maybe I'll see if I can steal Katara away from the food line a moment...put someone else in charge of it...she does enough around here for ten people ...she deserves some time off.... maybe go for a walk... explore ch`Rihan...I've never been here before....Maybe she has? Na! Couldn't have been *here* before! It's *ancient* ch`Rihan! Na io's been here but the *ancients* HA!!}}
Vyynd grumbles, poking beyond Ry's disturbed everyday thoughts and finds that what lies beneath Ry's almost maniac episode of unfounded happiness is more troubling thoughts of the situation around them.....
{{I sent tr`Ehger in to the ship that night, and he shows up dead... I had an argument with Bahyk and she ends up dead... The Leih's gonna kill me...Aehmig missing...Three people dead....He left me in charge and see what happens? People *die*! He was right... Everything I try gets messed up...the Leih's gonna kill me...}}
Vyynd withdraws immediately from the RS's mind, then paces up next to him eagerly, "Hey Ry...can I talk to au in place, for a moment...?"
"What, what??" Ry turns a startled eye towards Vyynd as he had forgotten all about him, "Ie, Ie?? Something new?"
"Ie...of course.....where exactly are au headed?!"
Rylan looks confused for just a moment, "Au stopped me to ask me that?" he raises a brow at Vyynd, "Well...umm...." looking at the camp ahead of him then back to the Tal`Shiar officer, "I was going to look for Katara, actually. Why?"
"Because....I want au to be careful," Vyynd smiles, and places a firm hand on Ry's shoulder, "Spend the rest of the day with Katara, enjoy the weather, and don't worry about these happenings. I'll report my findings to the Leih, and inform him of the current infallibility of these happenings... there was no way to help them."
Rylan looks even more confused and glances a little uneasily at that hand on his shoulder, "Uh...hann`yyo...but um..." he looks back at Vyynd, "I'll report to the Leih like I'm supposed to." he thinks about his own words a moment then nods, "Ie.....Was there something else?" he focuses back on Vyynd again.
"Ah, ok then. Just relax, Ry, au have earned it. And tonight, don't look for me..." Vyynd smiles, and wanders off into the camp.
Ry doesn't move for a while, staring at tr`Khaine's retreating figure as he walked away, wondering what those strange, cryptic last words of the agent meant exactly. After a few moments, thoughts of Katara creep back to the front of his mind, and with the smile once more in place, he happily goes off to find her, whistling along the way.
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