[240103.27 On the edge of the crew's encampment and the villager's encampment]
Rhagarokk stands outside a random tent, trying to calm down the mob that stands in front of him. "Ie," he sighs, explaining it again, "We're working on tracking down the killer as we speak, au have na-thing to worry about." After listing to yet another query that sounded the same as the others before, he answers "Na, security is fine, we believe we have an elite invisible killer, but our Tal'Shiar agents, well, the ones still here, are working on it." he continues to deal with the angry villagers and the crew with a disinterested air.
[Inside the Morrhae`Vnu...]
D`Tarik, having finished the autopsies of the two bodies, steps out of medlab and walks down the hallway. Wondering what all the ruckus outside and around the ship is about, he turns back on his com.
Rylan, who had just finished reporting the bodies in the corridor to Vyynd through the ip, sees a light illuminating from around a corner further down the tunnel. Drawing his disruptor in one hand, the lost llurih still held protectively in the other, he creeps up towards the bend in the corridor. Stepping over a dead body, Rylan flattens his back up to the wall. Hearing the other approaching, he prepares himself to spring, gripping the pistol tightly.
"Rylan...." D`Tarik's voice suddenly comes through his com, echoing in the corridor that Rylan heard the approaching footsteps, "What is going on?"
Sighing in relief, Rylan reholsters his pistol and steps out from around the corner. "Au almost got ninte-self shot, DT."
D`Tarik apparently didn't notice the boy at first, as he still tapped back, "This is na funny, Rylan! Where are...." he pauses to see the smirking face of the taller boy. Continuing on despite the fact that Rylan was standing in front of him, DT taps his com once more, and says "I will have to get back to au...I'm being watched..." and winks stupidly at the Arrain as he lets go of his com.
Rylan grins and shakes his head at the antics of the smaller boy. "Well...somebody's in here besides us...." he pauses to look around the corner from where he had come from, "Or has been..."
"What is going on...?" D`Tarik's voice took on a worried and confused tone. Taping Vyynd this time, he asks, "Vyynd, what is going on? I can't get Rylan to talk straight."
Finding that a good idea, Rylan taps his own com for tr`Khaine as well. "IP na working? This work better? Get my last at all?" he blurts out, still peeking around the corner. Then after a moment's pause, says to himself *the heck with it...* and taps a line open to the Leih. "Um..rekkhai? Where is ninte present location?" adding after a slight pause, "The killer's gone on a spree of sorts....in the ship..."
Unbeknownst to the pair, Vyynd was already on his way to their location. Stepping over one of the body's he counts off silently in his head, *There's t`Heitan....and tr`Hynrix...." He approached the other two, and glancing around, replies to Rylan and D`Tarik at once, "Rylan, ninte location over the last hour?"
Just then, the Leih had a chance to answer, and his voice comes back through Rylan's open channel, "Outside the ship...and I've got an alibi!"
At hearing Vyynd's question, Rylan mumbles, "Oh, for Elements'...." he sighs and looks to the ceiling a moment as he answers. "First, let's see...I gave Katara her necklace. Then I was with DT for a while....then Tahn...Then the Khensia..." he nods then glares at Vyynd, adding a little peeved, "And I made her give au that list, I'll have au know!"
"I was performing autopsies on the last two bodies, V-Man." DT supplies readily, still in the gear he was in for cutting up the bodies and such, and still in the same 'mad scientist' kinda mood.
"Na au, DT..." Vyynd taps a few things into his isd. "Au`rh cleared already." he looks to Ry, "Ie, Rylan...au are off the suspect list. Especially with this sloppy killing method...na ninte style." he pauses slightly, and looks to the isd, "tr`Hynrix is dead...." he continues looking over the slaughter scene, following a slight trail of blood, "Au spoken to tr`Rogel lately?"
"Ie...I sent him to get something from my tent....wish I could remember what it was..." DT pauses a moment, "Why? Is he a suspect?"
"Ie," Rylan answers, watching the Agent as Vyynd still moved away from the other two, "he is..."
"Really?" DT questions, shocked, "He was always a good worker...I don't know if he would ever be capable of anything like these killings."
Rylan grumbles quietly as he trails behind the other two, the llurih still in his hand, "Well, I didn't do it...and I've got a few alibis." Rhagarokk, unknown to the three, continues to eavesdrop on the conversation, as Rylan's com was still open to him.
Vyynd, now already out of the ship, had followed the trail back to the Daise`Medical officer's tent. Tapping open a line to the other boys now so that they could hear him he announces, "Well...." he glances into the tent and sees tr`Rogel's mutilated body, and another path leading out of the tent, which he choose to ignore for now. "tr`Rogel is lying dead, in ninte tent, DT...."
Only just coming out of the hull breech, DT taps back, "I see....thats umm....na good....I'm sorry to hear that." he stammers, then adds after a quiet moment, "This is the first victim of this maniac I have actually known closely..." then asks worriedly as another thought occurred to him, "Emni was na in the tent at the time, was she?"
Vyynd taps a few things into an isd, cutting tr`Sorek from the network, then shouts over it, "Every-io, full security alert....tr'Sorek is wanted for the murder of several crew mates... if he is seen, please report to myself and any security personnel immediately. He is to be considered extremely dangerous, and unreasoning." He looks up in time to see Rylan emerge now from the ship, heading his way.
DT, still worried and running towards his tent, calls over the comline though he was near enough for the agent to have heard his panicking voice, "Vyynd, Emni was na in my tent at the time of the killing right??" Growing tired of having his question ignored, he taps a line open to Emni instead, "Are au okay? Were au in the tent when it happened?"
Emni's voice comes back through, just a little shaken at the rumors that she had heard floating around, "I...I'm fine. I wasn't there, I was with Katara..."
"Okay, well, I'm at our tent..." he informs her through his comline, "I will be busy with more autopsies more then likely...I'm glad au are okay. Au can meet me there if au want."
Emni smiles weakly, though DT can't see it. Still visibly shaken, she answers back through the com, "I'll meet au there."
Rhagarokk cringes at hearing the agent's announcement through the com, "Rhagarokk to Vynnd..."
"Ie, rekkhai?" the agent answers.
Rhagarokk pauses a moment, then says through Vyynd's com, "Next time au are going to announce the identity of a mass murderer, please be a bit more subtle... I've got enough people with complaints..."
"Then network is limited, rekkhai..." Vyynd responds, "Now only to security personnel." he pauses to think about his orders a moment. "Ie, everything's in order?" he twitches. Pulling a tent post out from a mostly torn tent, Vyynd climbs to the top of it, looking around, barely balanced, holding a pair of enhanced binoculars to his weary, sleep-ridden eyes. Rylan approaches Vyynd closer, and watches him quietly.
Rhagarokk moves away from the crowd and switches to his IP, "So, are au sure it's Sorek?"
"Ie, rekkhai..." Vyynd answers through his ip, "Suspects were, tr`Sorek, tr`Hynrix, and tr`Rogel. Hynrix and Rogel were both found dead. And tr`Sorek has na reported in as of late. He's gone missing..."
Heading for Vyynd's location, Rhagarokk asks through the ip, "How was said list assembled?"
"tr`Tuhmek...." Vyynd spins, glaring in the other direction without the binoculars, the wind blowing his hair away from his face, "..consulted the Khensia program. She gave us a more narrowed list. Those were the three fitting the description of the killer, with even a possible chance of mental disturbance..." he pauses slightly then adds, "Whom do na have alibis..."
Rylan, still watching Vyynd quietly, shakes his head at tr`Khaine's last and asks, "Spot him yet, Vyynd?"
Rhagarokk raises an eyebrow as he approaches Vyynd's location, and connects Rylan in on the conversation, "The same hologram that tried to destroy the ship and disguised us as a Klingon warship while approaching a heavily armed starbase?"
"I think that was the same program...." Vyynd spins around the pole, looking in all directions, the wind picking up to a much faster speed.
D`Tarik, who had not tapped off, asks the agent, "So, we now know who the killer is...but he is na-where to be found? Am I understanding this right?"
Hearing that, Emni's voice floats through, "We know who he is?"
"D`Tarik...." Vyynd addresses the boy without looking at him, "There is *na* need to massacre tr`Rogel's body. Cause of death is apparent, and we na longer need any evidence...hann`yyu. He shall be given the gift of an *intact* burial..."
"He's in my tent," D`Tarik argues, "I want to see this, Vyynd. Is that okay?"
Ignoring this, Vyynd starts issuing orders, "Rylan...find Katara..." he taps Aeris, "Arm the crew, sweetheart...prepare for battle. If au see tr`Sorek, keep him pinned for me!" he begins laughing, still scanning around the entire area, switching sweeps and distances. "Ie," he addresses DT finally, "Viewing is allowed, in a humble fashion. Na-io is to touch the body though..."
Raising a brow slightly at the Agent at his 'order', and growing weary of waiting, Rylan heads back towards the ship. Taking out a glow rod, he looks at the all the foot prints on the ground outside the broken hull of the craft, trying to discern if one set breaks off from the jumbled mass of the rest.
Rhagarokk, now standing directly behind Vynnd, suddenly wonders out loud, "Wait, I wonder if I ever secured that killer robot..."
D`Tarik starts to think to himself out loud, "I could probably produce some kind of tracking... bug! Ie!" he nods to himself, "That's it! We could find that motherless wort in na time!"
Now approaching the area, Emni hears Vyynd's last statement and pipes in, "I should like to view the body as well, if that's alright..."
Now ignoring Emni, Vyynd jumps to the top of the tent, miraculously not caving it in by balancing on the middle tent post. He looks down at the assemble officers, "I'm the only killer robot au'll need...."
D`Tarik watches the agent a moment, wondering silently to himself why Vyynd was showing off for no good reason, before he turns to his tent. Emni follows him quietly, her own curiosity building. Shaking his head, and rolling his eyes, D`Tarik tries once more, "Vyynd, can I take a look at the body, and make sure na-thing in my tent is missing?"
"Au wouldn't know if anything was missing anyway." Vyynd laughs, "It's a mess, as usual. Well," he jumps down, scanning the ground around the official's feet, looking for anything, "Any-io have any brilliant ideas?"
"It's perfectly organized, right Emni?" D`Tarik argues with the agent, "We are used to living like that!"
"Indeed we are." Emni nods, "Everything in its place."
"Except that the dead body is a new addition." D`Tarik adds, "Now, can I or can I na look in my tent?" He questions Vyynd again, "I have pet projects that I'm working on in there that are important."
Recognizing DT's attempt to make light of the situation, Emni agrees, "Well, I have been thinking of sprucing up the place, but this isn't what I had intended..."
Not able to discern anything in the darkness or the jumbled mass of boot prints in the dirt, Rylan gives up with a shake of his head. Heading off to let security handle the matter, he goes to search for Katara, stopping to ask the Leih on the way, "Think we can use that killer robot as a tracking device? That might help. Like a blood-fvai...."
"Actually," the Leih replies, "I meant that the killer robot might be responsible..."
"Well, if tr`Sorek's dead then I certainly hope that the robot *is* responsible..." Rylan smiles slightly, "But...could we tweak it somehow to sniff the guy out?"
"tr`Sorek is responsible." Vyynd glares around, "His boot is imprinted into Rogel's neck..."
"And tr`Sorek is missing, right?" DT questions, looking up at Vyynd.
Ignoring this, Rhagarokk nods at Rylan's question, "Let me go check on it..." he turns around and heads for the ship.
As the Leih walks off, Rylan suddenly turns to ask Vyynd curiously, "Anyway to detect the emissions from a cloaker, Vyynd? There were faint traces after t`Bahyk and tr`Beck were found. Maybe we can pick up on something now?"
Vyynd walks into DT's tent, grabs the dead officer's body and exits with it over his shoulder. "Na-io is to leave the defined perimeter! And they'll know where that is, if they get near it. We're instituting maximum security tonight!"
"Can we go in our tent, Vyynd." DT asks annoyed, "And don't ignore this question like au have all my others." Emni looks at Vyynd questioningly, and sighs as she awaits the answer.
"Ninte tent can now be accessed." Vyynd says, walking off with tr`Rogel's body, "'Cept there's a huge pool of blood all over the place." Then shouts over his other shoulder to Rylan, who had been waiting patiently for the answer to his own question, "He wasn't cloaked for most of it!"
Holding back his own angry retort of 'then why hasn't any-io seen tr`Sorek?', Rylan only nods at Vyynd's remark and heads off in search of Katara again, still holding the lost llurih.
DT stares after Vyynd's back then says, "He is such an ahz sometimes. Anywho...looks like we gots some cleaning to do hun..."
"Sure do." Emni puts her arm around DT's shoulder, "Looks like a big job."
Stepping into the tent, DT exclaims dismayed, "Oh, na! Oh, Elements! Oh, na! There's blood on jacket number 32-A!" Running over to the coat, DT gingerly picks it up, a tear rolls down his cheek, "Au were always my favorite..."
Comforting DT, Emni says gently, "Come on now, hun...we can clean it up. It's fixable. Let's focus on getting the blood off the floor first..." DT, still being in his 'lab-mode' from working on autopsies like he usually is after working for long periods of time, doesn't seem to hear her. Emni takes the jacket from DT's hands, and lays it carefully in the corner. "Au need some sleep, D`Tarik."
"That's a good idea!" he suddenly hugs her, "Let's get scrubbing! Oh....tr`Rogel is dead..." he pauses, "Hmm...that's just killing me. We'll have to put a monument up for him in medlab." he nods, "He was a good kid."
A shadow of mourning crosses over Emni's face, "Ie...it's such a waste..."
"He liked au." DT told her gently, "Au know that, right? I think he had a bit of a crush on au. He was a good kid." he sighs, "Oh well. Hmm...I do have some of my 'zombie fluid' left...." he starts to think about this.
"Yeah...I noticed." Emni sighs then agrees, "He was a good kid." then suddenly looks at D`Tarik a moment, "What is it, D`Tarik?"
"What is what?" he asks innocently.
Emni grins, "I know that look.... au look like au`rh plotting something...."
"I usually am." DT shrugs, "Na, see...I could bring him back, I bet. Better then before! Ie!" his eyes light up as he gets wrapped up in his own little plot, "I can see it now!"
Looking slightly skeptical, "Are au sure that's.. well...wise?" Emni asks, "I mean, would he retain any memory of what happened to him?"
"Maybe it's na..." DT nods, "Maybe it's na... but like THAT ever stopped me before!"
Emni shakes her head and laughs a little, "Na, it hasn't..." she says hugging him.
DT hugs her back, Okay, well...I guess we better get this pool of blood up...how do au get blood out of grass and mud?"
Emni laughs a moment, "Lightweight absorbent compound, my dear." she says, grabbing a bag full of sawdust from a corner of the tent. "I collected this the other day from a villager. Comes in handy, eh?"
"Who shot who in the what now?" DT looks confused, then suddenly understands, "Ok! Sure! We clean now!" then pauses a moment in thought. Tapping open a line to Rylan, he asks, "Can au keep an eye out for Sprinkles for me, and if au see him, send him my way?" He waits a moment, then hears Rylan's typical answer of Fine x's 3.
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