[240103.26 Holodecks....on the Morrhae`Vnu...]
Crossing his arms in an unconscious display of defiance, Rylan passes a cool eye over the Khensia, "So, what is it au want, eh?"
"Really, Rylan..." Morrigan shakes her head slightly crossing her own arms as he had done, as she shifts her weight slightly to the right, "Au ask me to perform a task, and report to au when I have completed it." she raised a brow slightly, "Is this how au treat others who report to au....or am I a special case?"
"Report then." came the simple enough reply, dodging the main issue of her question entirely. "Who's the person responsible for all this?"
"I don't know..." Morrigan answered with a slight shrug of her shoulders. "I have a narrowed down, and greatly shortened list of more probable suspects, as au requested...but I can na pinpoint the killer..."
"Au can't...or au won't?" he interrupted her, then shook his head and continued before she could answer, "Never mind...I already know the answer to that. And I'd like to see this list, if au don't mind."
"Since ninte ISD is quite real, I'm afraid I do na have it with me." Morrigan's soft, almost musical voice echoed in the dimly lit holochamber. Uncrossing an arm, she motioned towards the holochamber doors; an almost inviting gesture. "I left it in my office." Ry's only response to this was a curt nod of his head before he headed towards the doors. Morrigan watched him a moment, then with a slight sigh, transferred herself to holochamber one.
Now standing by her desk, Morrigan picked up the ISD in question as Rylan entered the 'office'. As he approached nearer, the Khensia held the ISD a little closer to herself and informed him, "I need to explain about the names on this list." she glanced down to the object in her hands, then looked back up to him as he stopped a short distance away from her, "I don't want au to misunderstand what au may read on it. Or jump to any conclusions."
Holding his hand out towards her, he simply said, "So, let me see it."
"Only io person listed here is the killer, Rylan. The others only share certain....background elements, or personal traits, backed up by the evidence gathered. Only io is the killer....na the rest."
"Fine, fine, fine....let me see the fvadt thing and be done with it then!" Ry said in an annoyed air. "Just hand the thing over so's I can take a look at it, already." He had no sooner finished his last sentence then he suddenly snatched the ISD out of her grip before she had known what had happened. Turning it's screen around to face him, Rylan saw the neat vertical rows of blood-green letters staining the pristine black background:
tr`Hynrix, Braum Erien
tr`Rogel, Dylhan Fairen
tr`Sorek, Nevid Erien
tr`Tuhmek, Rylan Arrain
First taking a quick glance to the Khensia, and noting her pained expression, Rylan nodded as if he hadn't been listed at all, and handed the ISD back to her. "Then, please see to it that this list is transferred immediately to Vyynd tr`Khaine's own ISD."
Morrigan took the object, and turning it's keypad towards her, quickly tapped in the codes to transfer the data with the long delicate fingers of her right hand. Looking back up to him when finished, she tried once more to explain, "Just because a name is on that list doesn't mean that..."
"I know." Rylan nodded, taking the ISD back once more before turning towards the holochamber's interior control pad. "I asked au to do a job and au did it. Hann`yyo." His own fingers tapped at the holodeck's keypad a moment. Hearing the soft sound of the Khensia's sigh as she once more crossed her arms and turned her eyes away from his form, Rylan's hand hovered a moment over the 'enter' key, as he paused in thought.
Not turning to look at her, his quietly subdued voice floated back to her, "The fact that au felt au needed to explain, is na lost on me." his head turned slightly in her direction as Morrigan's own eyes focused on him once more. Nodding slightly, Rylan repeated, "Hann`yyo...." then an instant later, his finger touched down on the enter-key. Morrigan and her office shimmered a moment, then winked out of existence as the holodeck doors opened to allow Rylan to leave.
Rylan walked through the corridors for a time, his eyes not really registering his surroundings as he was locked up inside his own, troubled thoughts. Some unknown-to-him time later, he was brought back to the reality around him when something small brushed against his foot. Looking down he saw the small form of a llurih . The little furry creature looked up at him and made a soft, lonely mewling sound. Bending down to pick up the lost llurih, Rylan smiles and gathers the shaking little creature in his hands, cradling it to his chest. "Well...how'd au get in here then?" he asks it, scratching it gently under it's chin. "Bet au'rh hungry...let's see what we can find au then, eh?"
Rylan continued his footsteps a moment, only to have them falter as his eyes looked from the llurih he held, to the area around himself. It took his brain a moment to register what he was seeing, but when it did, his footsteps halted altogether.
Bodies.....
t`Heitan with a cut throat....t`Nhyyt, stabbed in the heart.....tr`Hynrix further down the dimly lit corridor, a glow rod eerily illuminating the features of his dead face; now marred by disruptor burns......
The hand that had been gently petting the lost little llurih cradled protectively to his chest, shakingly tapped open his com, then quickly tapped it off again. Using his ip instead, Rylan's quiet, shocked voice floated through to the Daise`Dehno. "Vyynd....there's a situation in the ship that au need to be made aware of....." he paused to swallow before continuing, not knowing if Vyynd had heard him or not, "There's a lot of bodies in the corridors...." he looked around himself, "At least three that I can see. There may be more...."
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