The day had been busy for all on SPD this fine day. �However, for K'Tael it was about 
to get more interesting...

Tom just came walking into the office of the Chief Security Officer.

"Screw the pleasentries. �We need to talk, and now. �Got a secure place where there 
are not any snoppy eyes or ears?" the human abruptly announced 
upon entering.

The Klingon looked up from his work. �He was surprised to see Tom in his office. �The 
human so rarely wanted to meet here, and considering some of 
the things he was involved with, K'Tael knew why.

He tapped his console a few times. �"My office is now fully secure," he said simply 
waiting to hear what Tom wanted to speak to him about.

"You have some trouble coming your way. �One of my bugs picked up a conversation in 
the Bajoran Embassy regarding an embassy courier bringing a 
severed humanoid hand onto the station. �Your Commanders Dais and Garibaldi were in 
there inquiring about it. �When they left there was a big pow-wow and I got it 
recorded. �You are about to have a diplomatic bomb blow up here. �I also hear that a 
certain group is looking for the pee-on that you have on ice. �You know the guy that 
was beatup pretty bad by the Bajoran torture freak that took a few years off of poor 
O'Neil's life... �They are really beating the grass to find him."

K'Tael was not surprised to hear that Orin was being hunted down. �That was one of the 
reasons he was being held on Mars under the watchful eye of his assistant. �He had to 
warn her that they might be getting closer. �"Was their any indication that they might 
know where he really is?"

(response?)

K'Tael knew the basics of the hand incident and that it was being taken care of by 
Dais and Joe Garibaldi, but he was not sure how far along in the investigation they 
had gotten. �"Do you have an idea who the hand might have belonged to when it was 
still attached?"

"Off hand...." he said with a smile, happy to use a pun. �"... I would say maybe poor 
O'Neil or perhaps another in the organization. �They did not say out right who it 
belonged to, and I could not scan it for DNA... �I can say that it looked small, 
diminutive. �Perhaps a young woman's hand..."

That response led to a few possibilities, the first of which could have been the woman 
who had been pretending to be Selara D'amondra.  "Do you know where they store the 
hand?  It sounds like they have not disposed of it yet."

}}}=) Lisa

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