> "And, Audra, be careful. Parties can be really dangerous." > > She nodded in response before heading out of the office. > > K'Tael watched her go. A part of him was sad that she was in command rather > than Security, but he was glad that he had the opportunity for her to help > out. He turned back to his desk to access the files that Uglara had given > him. > > K'Tael finds a treasure trove of information. In addition to the > complaining about Garibaldi being more talk than substance, and the > complaining about the hand being found there was this... > > "Look, this is starting to get out of hand. We had to eliminate O'Neill > because he was talking to security chief, K'Tael. If he were not running in > circiles after his tail and other cases we would have bigger problems. > Dropping off the dead of O'Neil was a good move, but poorly executed. I > should not have let security find it, I should have cut the damned thing off > and left it in the bar where all of the other would be informants would find > it first." came the voice of Relik the Bajoran Chief of Security. (K'Tael > recognized it because he had spoken to him many times regarding security for > the embassy) > > Another voice, which sounded like the Chief of staff, Rivik... "Well that > is in the past, and we can not worry about it now. More important things are > ahead of us. Like getting Lasiter. He has an agenda, and to make it work he > is going to need political help. Help that we can provide. We need him to > feel some serious heat. Heat that only the Ambassador can make go away, at > least for a while. Long enough for him to be ours. Once we have him in the > fold we can make more agressive moves to take control of Starfleet." > > "As long as do not forget our past, or it may bite us... ABout the > Lasiter thing... is that not why Garibaldi was brought in? He is supposed to > be doing something for us in that respect, why has he not been paying off? I > think we should terminate him, possibly Lasiter as well. They are close, and > I do not trust Garibaldi. For all we know he is telling Lasiter everything." > Relik replied a bit testy and anxious. > > "Just calm down. Nothing will happen to either of them until I say so..." > > "Or the Ambassador gives the word..." > > "Whatever... now what about that last shipment?" > > "It made it fine. There was a snag though. We had to eliminate a third > party weapons supplier. There was no other way. They were getting greedy." > Relik replied switching tones as topics changed. > > "What happened?" > > "Torus had to kill him and his crew. I made the transfer and left it to > Torus. He had borded the small craft at that point. I did not want to watch > his sloppy work, and I had to get the Starfleet frigate back to it's assigned > mission." > > "You did not make sure that he finished the job right? Stupid..." > > "Hey!... you were bitching so I had to get back. Starfleet would have > known something was up if the the frigate went missing for too long. It was > a small time smugglar named Jackson Hardcastle and a band of shoddy rabble... > " > > K'Tael got more evidence on more crimes... illegal use of a Starfleet > vessel, piracy, extortion, and an admission that he (Relik) dismembered > O'Neil- his first informant... > > K'Tael had to admit that the Tellarite had definitely not exaggerated what > she had here. Just the information about the dismembered hand alone would > probably prove to be helpful. He was going to have to give a copy of the > recording to Joe Garibaldi and Commander Dais as soon as possible. > > "Computer, location of Joe Garibaldi and Commander Dais?" >
"They are in the Bajoran Embassy at thsi time." replied the computer.
