Corliss shakes his head. "It looks like we had a trace lead someone back to our super secret location," says Corliss grimly. "Odds are it was Seran, but I don't know. All I know is there probably won't be trouble here...and that I really have to leave. I need to get my ship fixed, but until then I'll wait for Myitt, she should be back sooner than I can get the Skimmer up and running."
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Myitt, meanwhile, emerges from a relatively short trip through z-space, close to the bar; her scanners are automatically running through lists of the closest space ports in Yeerk space.
"Damnit, half of these are too far out to scan," she growls, frustrated. She picks up the link. "Corliss, see if you can pick anything up closer to the bar, I'm looking for signals from Yeerk ships at local space ports. Specifically from..." She reads out a string of numbers that indicate what her computer thinks is Seran's signal, from an earlier interception. "Can you help me out? I'm on my way back to the bar. For the love of Christ, hurry."
"Right," says Corliss, hopping off his bar seat, leaving his half-finished beer at the bar.