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[Myitt]

"Good," says Myitt, connecting the wires to Cody's ears as soon as he and Sukohn are sedated.  She is too distracted, and just plain too guilty, to make eye contact with Tamora.  "Just as long as he doesn't die."  She sits down on the opposite gurney and her eyes track as she views Sukohn's memories.  "We will have to perform the second memory wipe on Cody with Sukohn removed from his body," she says as her eyes glass over, staring at nothing.  "Should be fun," she says dreamily, stepping into the moment when Sukohn and Cody first heard about the identities of the human bandits, then a bit further back, when he first met Elayne and Keshin.  This would eliminate all possibility of him getting the idea to ask them for the same favor.  

<Say 'sayonara',> she says, and the memories blur under her feet as they are wiped from the chemical recesses of Sukohn's stored memory centers.  Everything up until the present moment.  

When it is finished Myitt groans and blinks a few time, her eyes red from...well, not blinking.  She rubs at them irritably, squinting, and then gently unhinges the wires a second time.  She hops off the gurney and disconnects the wires from Sukohn, watching as they snake, oozing, out of Cody's head.  

"Okay," she breathes, standing back.  "Okay.  Sukohn, you're going to have to leave your host, or I'll have to drag out out of there."  Myitt glances sidelong at Ossanlin.  "If that's morally acceptable."

---

Corliss is still facing away from Terenia, gazing back at the ship.  He sighs, waiting for them to leave.

"What is taking them so long?" he says to himself, kicking at some of the gravel beneath Mike's feet.  

[Luke Skywalker (Ossanlin)]

Ossanlin looks to Tamora with his main eyes.  <Yes we are.  My condolences, Tamora...it was not my plan to destroy Zorish.  I'm sorry it turned out this way.  And I would also like you to know that your sister did not ask for this.  She did not want our help in liberating you, she is not responsible for your Yeerk's death, though I suppose she might've killed him to free you if she had been given the chance.  We scanned Terenia's memories and acted on our own.  We are planning to show you these memories as well.  They will show you why she was not able to come back to Earth...why you had to stay alone with your...guardian.  After that, the rest is up to the both of you.  Terenia seems to think you will...dislike her.>

Ossanlin says all of this while Myitt is probing through the memories, when she addresses him, he looks over at her.  <<As long as you're not murdering a sentient being in cold blood I don't see the problem.>>

[Terenia]

Tamora recoils as much as her restraints will allow at the mention of her sister, her eyes darkening. "I don't want to see her," she says plainly, the hint of a whimper returning to her voice, although her eyes are dry. "You can't show me anything I don't already know." She looks down at her bindings best she can, taking the moment to steady her breathing. She is determined not to break down.

"Are you going to untie me?" she asks once she has control over herself once more.

[KitsuneMarie]

Elayne kept an eye on Terenia as she smiled at Mar. She didn't dislike the woman--although everyone else seemed to... perhaps she just hadn't spent enough time around her yet--but trouble did seem to follow her everywhere. It's best to keep my distance for a while, she reasoned. Especially while she has that sour expression.

"Corliss has had some limited communication with Ossanlin," she told Mar; "they're sorting out something onboard, so we don't have confirmation of everyone's safety yet. But... my optimism hasn't failed me yet," she smirked. Then she drew her bottom lip between her teeth and chewed lightly; the still-closed hatch was beginning to unnerve her a bit. What had happened on the Mirage that was taking so long to sort out? What were they hiding? Or perhaps protecting them from?

[Myitt]

"I hardly think I'll be doing that again, thanks," Myitt snaps, anger and remorse sinking in her stomach like a cold weight.  It makes her feel ill again, but she swallows it down. 

Tara is silent, watching, refusing to help or to hinder.

[Chad32]

(Why would you need to sedate a guy that's bound up? Or did you forget he's tied?)

Derrel's eyes widened as Ossanlin entered the room. Tara said they were on a plane, but they were really on an alien ship. Was he abducted by aliens? She was using a machine to wipe memories. Had she just done that to him? Why? Also why did she go by two names?

Sukohn wondered why Myitt thought he'd be able to disconnect the wires in his state, but couldn't do anything about being sedated. After his memories were wiped, he wondered how he got from the bar to being tied up in the Prince's ship. He almost missed Myitt telling him to leave his host.

<I must have done...something, and they had to do a memory wipe.>

He quickly skimmed over Cody's memories in the hopes of grabbing something useful. He didn't have much time, though, and he didn't want it to be obvious. After he was done, he left Cody's body hoping Myitt wouldn't notice what he had done. It was so fast, Cody probably didn't realize it in his still sedated state.

"What and why are you hiding, Corliss? I can tell something is up, and I see no reason for you to not tell. Though I guess throttling you in front of Myitt and Ossanlin could get me in trouble, so there's not much I can do." Temrash said.

[Luke Skywalker (Ossanlin)]

((Well the way I saw it Chad, I figured you were only bound hands around a pipe or steel bar or something in the med-bay.  You could still kick or stand or shake your head around violently...at least that's how I saw it.))

Ossanlin looks again at Tamora.  <We will supervise you, and we think it may be best to keep your hands bound for the time being.  Trust me, even if Terenia wanted to hurt you she would not be able to.  If you show yourself as able to function in your current state, and will not try to destroy Terenia, then the hand-binders will be removed.  We're not asking you to be friends with your sister, all we want is for you to see her memories straight from the source.  After that, you'll be free to do whatever you wish...within reason.>

[Terenia]

Trey sighs a little as Mar gets up and abandons him as well, leaving him alone at the table. He looks around at the bar, noticing that it has thinned out substantially. Propping his elbows on the table and resting his chin on his hands he contents himself to wait.

---

Terenia's eyes, fixed on the Mirage as she waits for it to open, cannot help but trail down to the back of Corliss' standing so near to her. Despite Efaen's harsh warning to forget about him she still feels drawn to the Yeerk.

---

"I'm not going to kill her," Tamora says, "I can hardly aim a Dracon without...without Zorish...let alone shoot one." She takes a deep breath, her tone changing slightly from one of dull acceptance to grief-stricken anger, "I just want to go home. Why did you have to drag me all the way across the galaxy to see some stupid memories? Couldn't you have done it in transit, or were you too busy mur-" she cuts off, a lump forming in her throat. She clears it, refusing to look in Myitt's direction, "murdering the person I care about most?"

[Gaz]

Gaz nodded. "The only way we found out was after he was supposedly dead. It's gonna take a while. He didn't even tell me, and I'm his cousin. He's the only blood family I got left."

Next to Morgan, Andromeda gave a slow blink like one who has a headache.

Gaz or Morgan didn't notice, but Fletcher, when he was glancing across at the table noticed.

"Something isn't right," he muttered.

[Myitt]

Corliss glances back at Temrash.  "Would you kindly mind your own business?" he says, trying to keep level-headed.

---

Myitt, waiting for Sukohn to disengage, winces as Tamora chokes on her words.  She finds that she has nothing to say to the human girl; what could she possibly say that would rectify what she, Myitt, has done?

She pulls Sukohn's tail end out of Cody, impatiently, and walks briskly into the cabin.  She hesitates, looking down at the empty little plastic pool, but places Sukohn inside it along with the reactivated Kandrona generator. 

Quickly she returns to the med bay, a bit out of breath.  She'd been forgetting to breathe.  "Alright, Cody, let's...let's do this." 

The same procedure, all over again.  Wires hooked up to herself and the human.  Flipping through to the same moment where Cody had first met Elayne and Keshin, and learned of the human resistance. 

Just like that.  Erased.

Myitt disconnects and sighs, just weary from...everything.  She removes the wires from Cody and walks into the cabin, not even wanting to acknowledge any of the others.

[Chad32]

Sukohn waited a bit, then mentally smiled to himself. It looked like it worked. Something about Human morphers on Earth, and a guy named Marco. It wasn't much, but it was something. He spread himself out in the pool, soaking up delicious nutrients. Meanwhile Cody found himself bound and gagged in a medbay with no recollection of why he was there, or where Sukohn was. He figured Sukohn must be feeding, and he had been tied up to keep him out of trouble, but they even bound his mouth.

Derrel slowly got up and creeped towards the door that Myitt had gone through. There were more people, including younger looking blue aliens.

<I believe we are ready, Prince Ossanlin.> Claxter said when Myitt reentered the room.

Temrash snorted disapproval at Corliss, but turned away to watch the ramp.

[Luke Skywalker (Ossanlin)]

Ossanlin watches Myitt.  <I suppose we could merely let Sukohn feed for now.  I hope everyone's ready for the mob.>

Ossanlin mentally commands the lock-seals on the main ramp to depressurize.  A thin white mist could be seen billowing out accompanying a hissing noise for those on the ground.  Then he commands the ramp to lower.  The sleek metal splits and the ramp lowers itself to the ground, the top portion of the door folding up to allow greater clearance.  Ossanlin steps onto the ramp and trots down it, looking around at all the bar patrons staring.  His eyes lock on Terenia a moment before continuing down the ramp and setting hoof on the soft, trodden earth.  <Well, I can't say I was expecting a welcoming party...>

[Myitt]

Myitt is placing the wired computer into her backpack when a spark of paranoia hits her. 

"Hang on a second, I'll catch up," she calls to Ossanlin and the others.  She pulls the memory probe out again and, with great reluctance, places the slimy wires at Tara's ears for the fourth time in less than half an hour.  She walks over to the little plastic tupperware pool.

There is a jolt as they connect with her Yeerk flesh, and then she places the corresponding wires into the pool where Sukohn is feeding.  The wires, sensing close proximity to a neural connection, snake out until they find Sukohn's flesh and tap into his mind once more.

Myitt appears in Sukohn's mind, but not visually, this time. 

<Hmm,> she says thoughtfully.  <Very clever.  Perhaps foolish on my part to nearly let this one slide.  Ah well.  This might cause brain damage, just to let you know.  Sorry.>  She wipes Sukohn's memory a second time, eradicating the snippets of information that would have undone everything they had just fought...and killed...for.

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Corliss steps toward the ramp, wide-eyed.  "Ossanlin!" he calls.  "Where are the others?"

[Chad32]

(Poo! Why'd you have to do that, Myitt?)

<Aww, man!> Sukohn yelled as Myitt erased the snippets of memory he almost got away with. He tried to retain it, but it slipped away, and he was left with nothing.

Claxter entered the medbay to grab Cody, who was likely in need of stretching after being bound for a while. He removed the bindings. <You're with me now, Human. Sukohn can wait in the pool, but you may come with me to the bar if you behave.>

"Fine." Cody said apathetically. Claxter unbound his legs, but left his hands tied behind his back. Then they walked out, leaving Sukohn in the pool for the time being.

"It's good to see you back, Ossanlin. You've been out of contact, and we were getting worried." Temrash said.

[Luke Skywalker (Ossanlin)]

Ossanlin nods to Corliss and Temrash.  <We're all fine, though I'm sure we're appreciative of your concern...both of you.>  Ossanlin eye-smile wryly.