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[Chad32]

"Good. Now this guy is likely to act like that insectoid from earlier, I think. Well intentioned extremist, perhaps."

[Myitt]

The ropes start to slither out of Zoshonel's hands once he has made a rudimentary connection, and they bind Cavan's body at the feet, legs, arms at the torso, and they bind his hands behind his back.  They divide and recombine like liquid snakes, and once they've completed their binds, they tighten at every slight movement Corliss makes.

"Cor, I hate these things," Corliss murmurs, trying to keep still.  

To his temporary host, he adds, <That assumes that we let you go, Cavan.  Please understand that there are no hard feelings.  I've seen your past, your deepest fears, and I hope you do get a second chance.  But if you try to harm any of my friends again, don't expect us to behave with such sympathy.>

[Darth Revan]

Parker watches the ropes tie themselves tighter. "Wow, those are awesome."

[Chad32]

"Yeah, they tie themselves."

claxter moves cloe to the stranger. <Is he alaw enforcer, or a bounty hunter like Kess?>

[Gaz]

Morgan watched as Cavan was tied up. His eyes were narrowed.

After a long moment he said, "Corliss knows what I'm talking about when I say there is no way I can let this man leave here alive. I know his kind. He's out for blood. If he gets out of here he won't rest until myself, Asda, Fletcher and Gaz are dead."

He got closer to Cavan. "I know you can hear me in there. I could kill you myself. I should after what you did to Asda."

[Myitt]

Corliss digs into Cavan's memory, making absolutely sure.  He looks up at Claxter.  "He is a bounty hunter, in the employ of their government, which has initiated the arrest of known pirates.  But regardless, he has no jurisdiction here.  And no right to shoot someone who made no attempt to harm him."  He nods at Morgan, but seems to be looking past him.  "I see this human's mind, and there is a great deal of anger.  Hatred.  Pain, also.  He is determined to pursue these pirates, no matter what the cost.  He may want to seek us out, too.  Cavan Everett is a vengeful creature."

[Darth Revan]

"Sounds like he needs to either be shipped out with a broken navigator, or detained in someone's cargo hold."

[Chad32]

Claxter still didn't like the idea of Corliss being in the guy's head, but that was besides the point. <Very well. The man has endangered bystanders and is working out of his jurisdiction. But we have no right to try or execute him.>

[Terenia]

Terenia walks up next to Claxter, not touching him, but moving closer than is considered comfortable by Andalite standards. <I know it is unnatural to you,> she says softly, <but I believe that Corliss is a good person...a good Yeerk. He does not take advantage of his abilities, from what I have seen.>

[Chad32]

<Yeah I'm still getting used to that part.> As he looked at her, he realised what he had overheard as he was focused on something else. <You're a controller!?>

(I need to go to bed. I'll leave things like this until morning.)

[Terenia]

<I suppose so, yes.> Terenia acknowledges, <Although there are several ways you can look at my situation.>

[HiImshort]

Fox finally spoke up after a few minutes and said in a cold voice: "How about you leave his head and I put a few shoys into him?"

[Darth Revan]

"That was attempted murder, assault, and vigilantism. What do you suggest we should do, Claxter?"

[Myitt]

"How about we all calm down, and let Mr Everett speak for himself?" Corliss replies.  "Typically humans must be alive in order to explain themselves."  He looks up at Mike.  

"Wot, issat my cue, then?" Mike says, smirking.  He walks over to Cavan's body and sits down, bringing him in for a sideways hug.  

"Ow, that's his neck," Corliss says, while their ears press together.  

<Goodbye, Cavan,> says the Yeerk as he disengages from Cavan's mind.  <I am sorry to have to do this to you.>

He slithers back into Mike's head.  About halfway through, one of them removes Mike's arm from around Cavan's tied-up body, pushing away from the bounty hunter.  Half of Corliss is still making its way into Mike's head.  In a few minutes Corliss stares back out at everyone through Mike's eyes, and he climbs to his feet, taking in everything else Mike had seen during Corliss' time in the pool.

He sits down in the nearest wooden chair, at a table.  "Visser Three?" he asks skeptically, looking up at Terenia, unable to delay the question out of shock.  "Why would anyone in his right mind want to work for Visser Three?  I suppose he's got you stymied.  You have no choice."

Corliss looks over at Cavan, making sure he's still securely tied, out of sheer paranoia.

[Darth Revan]

Parker buts in on Corliss's conversation, "Wouldn't this place give you a good way of getting out of his command?"