About 15 minutes later, the Assistant Chief of Security found her way
to K'Tael's office, where the two men were waiting for her.
K'Tael turned to the CO to allow him to take the lead in the discussion
since he was the senior officer.
"Hope you had a good trip, Mr. Aravis. What do you have for me?"
"Well, I hope yu don't mind, sir, but I brought someone else along. I
thought he might be of help considering what we found while we were out
there."
K'Tael nodded to indicate that he accepted the new person's presence.
He had come to trust Aravis over the years, and had no doubt that she
only brought him if she thought he could add something.
Lorin waited for an introduction.
"This is Lt. Gabe Ares. He was one of the scientists you sent us out to
locate. As you can see, we were able to find him and his companion. It
seems that they were taken by what I believe to be a group of Brothers.
They were using some alien technology, the one that I told you about,
to allow access to a facility they could use as a base of operations
and still have access to various sites in the Solar System."
"Wecome aboard, Mr. Ares. I hope you have had some time to recover
from your abduction."
Gabe bowed his head at the two senior officers. He had never met
either of them before, but he hoped he could prove helpful with the
mysteries he had become involved that seemed to be centered around the
facility he had been rescued from.
"Mr. Ares. Welcome to Spacedock. What kind of details can you document
for us?"
"Thank you, sir, " replied the young officer. "My companion and I did
not have a lot of direct contact with the people that had taken us, but
we were able to get some impressions about them. For one, they did not
seem like they had taken us because they had planned to. I got the
impression that we were captured more because we had been somewhere
they did not want us. If they didn't want us to spread the word about
what we had seen, they had no choice but to imprison us."
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Gabe paused for a moment to consider the question. It was not that he
did not know the answer, but he wanted to put together in a way that
included all of the pertinent informaiton. As usual, he was the
typical scientist. "Over the few days that Janice and I were held, we
met about nine different guards. All of them were human. They were
both male and female, and appeared to be of varying racial and ethnic
backgrounds. They did not speak directly with us, but we did overhear
them talking to each other from time to time, and they always used
English."
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Ben
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