>"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?"
>
>"Not yet, but he is on Mars under tight guard by one of your top people. I
>was able to find *that* much out. I would not expect them to be ignorant of
>that for too much longer. I'd say that you have perhaps 36 hours at least,
>perhaps 48 - 72 hours before they start to get wind of his location."
>
>K'Tael did not like what he had heard. He had hoped to keep Odin's location
>a secret for longer. He was going to have to get a message to his team on
>Mars. They were going to have to move him to anothe secure location.
>
>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."
>
>"I doubt that they have ditched it yet, but anything is possible. They have
>not spoken about it's storage place, but I suspect that it is a trophy of
>kind. I would say somewhere in the embassy compound. That would be the
>safest place for it to be from law enforcement."
>
>K'Tael nodded. That made sense to him as well, though he was surprised to
>hear that they still held on to it, particularly with the current
>investigation that was underway.
>
>"Is there any chance that you might be able to narrow down such a search or
>even get us a DNA sample?"
>
"Me, no way. I can not get in there with a good enough scanner. I have to use
mostly passive scans so they are not detected by their sweeps. Maybe asking your XO
to bring in a rigged Tricorder would work."
{response}
"On another topic, Uglara came in this morning. She has news for you. Seems as if a
the Security Chief at the Embassy was all bent out of shape over something. She was
ferrying him in from some Alpha Centauri trading station. He had a call with the
Ambassador and he was all up in arms about the hand incident as well as how reckelss
operations have been around here. Looks like they are taking some chances with what
ever they are planning. The security chief even complained about our friend Admiral
Garibaldi..."
{thoughts}
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