It took a few minutes for Lavality to get back to the interrogation room; when she came she saw that the prisoner appeared to be rather drunk. "Someone have on to many drinks." Lavality grinned and proceeded with the interrogation.

The prisoner was more cooperative this time around and told her a lot of stuff, about how much they where being paid to take both her and Naosha's kids out. But what she didn't learn was what she really wanted - a name, or at least a description. The trandoshan was just to drunk to either remember, or perhaps he wasn't even there to begin with and instead had just been given his orders elsewhere.

"Fine." Lavality said after the trandoshan had fallen onto the ground - asleep. "Get rid of him." she said and the warriors nodded and carried the Trandoshan out of the interrogation room but only got a few feet before Lavality told them to bring in the Trandoshan that had tried to get the kids. The two warriors looked at each other. "You sure?" one asked and Lavality blinked. "Of course I'm sure." she said the two warriors snickered and walked away.

Placing her hands on her hips, she cocked her head to one side. "Something I'm missing?" she asked herself.

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Naosha could only stare at Rissonik and the report. “He’s not going to react very well to this is he?” She finally asked.

“He never really bonded with those two, so I’m not sure.” Rissonik said. “But what I do know is that he won’t take too well to being targeted for something like this.”

“The Miknaks?”

“It doesn’t seem ‘like’ them, though Lavality would know better. Tiosk is a Vice Admiral yes, but striking at you or someone else on the Council would be more effective. I think this is a personal strike against him…”

“But why? Tiosk can be a pain but I don’t see him as having any real enemies….”

“I wish I knew…” Rissonik said. “Either way, someone needs to get word of this up to him on the station.”

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When Trazu heard Lavality’s request he chuckled and told the warriors he would deliver that prisoner himself. After fetching the man he brought him to the room. “The kids had some fun with him when he was captured.” He explained, having to fight to not burst out laughing again.

***

Meanwhile Silliss just got word of his two half brother’s deaths. He was in shock. “Why them…” He muttered as Varcanna tried to comfort him. “They weren’t anyone really important…”

Varcanna looked at the news report and came to the same conclusion as Rissonik did. Considering their recent discussion, Varcanna worried about Silliss’ near future. “Silliss…whomever these people are that did this…I
fear they may be finished ‘bidding their time’….”

To her slight surprise, Silliss nodded. “If they come for me…I am not going to just lay down and take it…I’ll go down fighting.”

Varcanna could only smile: those were the words of a true K’Satikur warrior.

After hearing Trazu's comment Lavality couldn't help but burst into laughter. She laughed so hard that tears came out of her eyes and she had to leave the interrogation room.

The Trandoshan, on the other hand, looked rather embarassed at this predicament. After a couple minute's Lavality managed to regain her composure and walk back into the room, but a snicker here and there crept out.

"So.." she said putting on a serious face. "How about you tell me everything you know; or I'll ask you know who to bring in you know what and they'll who knows what to you." she grinned at him and he sighed.

For those few minute's the assassin revealed that he was one of the few that where tasked with kidnapping Naosha's kids; originally for ransom, but if all else failed, they where to kill them. Another group of about six where sent after her, Lavality, in an effort to crumble the alliance between the Trandoshan people and the Serendivus.

As he talked she became aware of something: He knew a lot of what was going on and perhaps he'd be of some 'use' to her. Her curiousity however peeked when he mensioned McGan's name. "What was that?!" She suddenly shouted at him and turned toward him.

"Someone named McGan was here a few days ago; talked about getting rid of Elder Councilor Naosha and Sha'tor Rissonik." he explained and looked at the far wall. "Which was odd because he was a Serendivus." he said

"Key word being was" Lavality commented before gesturing for him to continue. "He was going to pay us a large sum of money. But he wasn't the only one who was there, a female trandoshan wearing what appeared to be a counculors garb was also there."

Lavality stopped the interrogation at that point but the prisoner continued. "I also know they are black mailing someone named Balik." he stated. Both warriors in the room turned to each other as if they where saying something then looked back at the prisoner. "Thats about all as I know." he said

"Now.. umm...." He was about to say before Lavality turned to him. "You've been far more useful than the other's." she said and tapped her foot. "Provided Elder Counculor Naosha is willing to spare your life, doubtful, but you never know. I may have an idea for you to help us."

When she said this one of the warriors did a double take. "Wh-what are you saying? He tried to kill-" he said before Lavality turned to him. "And if you had properly checked his weapon you'd have discoveed it was a FAKE." she said and both warriors gulped. "Wasn't even real." she said and shook her head. "But even though it was fake, that still doesn't justify your reasons for breaking into the manor, that I'm sure you'll have to answer for." she said and turned and left the interrogation room.

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Rissonik noticed Lavality come out of the room, looking satisfied. “It appears you got some things you wanted out of that one.” He said with a faint smile, but that faded quickly. “I have some grave news however…” He said. “While you were interrogating the prisoners word came out on the news that two of Tiosk’s sons were killed. The manner of which is suspicious in our eyes and we feel was assassination. Those two boys were of minor noble houses and not logical targets, beyond them being the Vice Admiral’s progeny. Either way, we don’t feel the Miknaks were responsible for this, directly anyway. Regardless, word of his son’s death need to reach him and you have the better means to get it to him.
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“We fear Tiosk may be next, but word of his son’s demise will be enough to put him on his guard.” Rissonik added. “Besides that…did you find out anything that could be of interest to us?”

Lavality nodded. "Yes.... he says that someone wearing a counculors garb was present when him and his fellow assassin's were being told how much they'd be paid if they commited these acts." she said and shrugged. "This is your field Sha'tor Rissonik; I won't get into your bussiness unless you directly request it. However the fact they also went after me makes this my problem as well. How should we proceed?" she asked him. She truly was at a loss of what to do now.

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“Since you were targeted as well you have every right to investigate the matter.” Rissonik said. “But it should be done under T’Doshok law. That said, if we can get any details on this ‘councilor’ the prisoner mentioned, like gender, we can narrow the possibilities down.”

“There are not many female Councilors for instance.” Naosha put in. “It would also help if the prisoner knew if it was an Elder Councilor or not. The question though is whether or not this person is a ‘real’ Councilor ornot: smart councilors don’t make the habit of wearing the official robes when not actually going to a Council.”

“Plus non-Elder Councilors only usually meet four times a year and the next one is not for another month” Rissonik added. “If this person is a real Councilor, then he or she is either very full of himself or just got back from or about to go a meeting.”

“There was an Elder meeting yesterday.” Naosha said grimly. “And none of the others were acting ‘suspiciously’, but then again, this individual could be a very good actor. Caution will be needed.”

“This is already reminding me of how we had to figure out which Elders were on our side back in the Separatist days…” Rissonik sighed. “Any other tidbits we need to know?”

Lavality sighed. "It seem's McGan, one of the traitors in my organization, is a part of these assassination attempts. I think he's mainly after me though, with me out of the way he'd have no problems convincing the rest of the organization to side with him."

She placed her hand on her forehead and walked toward a chair and sat down. "He's here on Trandosha.... he has to be or else he wouldn't have been able to convince so many of them to attack us. Leave him to me and I'll leave this 'myserious' counculor to you." she said before remembering something. "Oh and according to the prisoner the counculor was a female"

“A female…” Naosha said with a sigh. “Well that does narrow down the possibilities by quite a bit.”

“There’s only two other female Elders right love?” Rissonik asked.

“Yes, and not many more of the non-Elders.” Naosha confirmed. “Of the Elder ones I know Elder Councilor Shissa fairly well and doubt she’s the traitor: the other one keeps to her self a lot.”

“Best not to take chances love.” Rissonik said. “Though the other does sound suspicious we can’t leave Shissa out of the line up.”

“True, she did pull me to the side and invite me to a dinner party of sorts after the meeting yesterday. I had told her I would think about it.”

“Hmm…I remember you mentioning that.” Rissonik said. “That does sound like a set up. Didn’t she mention that you could bring a friend?”

“Yes. Hmm…” Naosha thought about it a moment, then a sly smile formed on her lips. “I’ll get Trazu to come with me.” She said.

“Why Traz…oooohhhh….” Rissonik at first didn’t see her line of thinking, but when he did smiled broadly. “That’s right…besides those in the Clan and the Seren’s, not many know Trazu is a Jedi.”

“What are you volunteering me for this time?” Trazu said as he entered the room, a faint frown on his face.

“Son, there’s a female Councilor that’s one of the Miknaks and we need to figure out which one it is.” Naosha explained. “Fortunately, one of them, Elder Councilor Shissa, invited me and a quest to a dinner party tonight and I decided my guest would be you.”

“Let me guess…you want to utilize my Force abilities to determine if Shissa is the traitor.” A nod. “What if the Miknak’s plan to use this party to knock off two Councilors?”

“Well, the traitor will likely know you are Jedi, so probably wouldn’t try anything if you came along since you’d ‘know’ it was about to happen. Not to mention she would probably try to stay away from you since you could blow her cover.”

“If she knew what I was, she’ll more likely try to act as ‘normal’ as possible: to stay away from me would arouse my suspicions.”

“Either way, you’d be able to detect her intent right?”

Trazu sighed. “That’s not really how the Force works mother and if she’s good enough I may not be able to sense anything suspicious from her without physical contact: I am not yet good enough to enter another’s mind without that physical link yet. It will also depend on how many other’s will be there. The more people there the more ‘interference’.”

“What about that ‘mist vision’ you told me about before?” Rissonik inquired.

Another sigh. “That would only really work if they have evil or malicious intentions in mind. If they are careful not to think it in my presence at best they would be a slightly darker ‘gray’ in the vision: not enough to condemn someone.”

“Still we need to give it a shot.” Naosha said. “I do not know how many other’s Shissa invited: it’s possible she invited the other female as well. I will find out when I call her to confirm that I’ll be going.”

Lavality was fidgetting with a scanner that she had pulled from her pocket, after all that fighting she noticed it was still working. After listening to Naosha and Trazu she couldn't help but wonder if she should go after McGain on her own, or perhaps get some little extra 'help'

No. She knew this was something only she and her organization could contend with. It was best to leave the other's out of this for the time being, she didn't want to risk this some-how getting to some media's ears, even though the media rarely threads in this part of space.

But to what end she wondered. McGain already knows that if the media was to report on what they where doing, a lot of people would be wondering who these 'Serendivus' where, espically considering that they're organization has only been reported twice, first was the major battle here, and second was a research accident that she had gotten wind of a few days ago.

She pushed herself out of the chair and walked toward the door. "Do what you must, I think you listening to me." she said and walked out of the room, she hadn't realized that she had completely forgotten about the honorics, but with how much was on her mind, perhaps they'd understand.

Lavality made her way down the hallway and into the hanger bay, the bay was a bustle of activity as several Trandoshan's where picking up peices of the interceptor that had been bombed by their attackers, she saw blood on the ground and knew where it had come from. She hoped her admiral would be ok, because it wasn't easy to replace such fine officers.

In the back of the bay Maskis was watching her; and listening for anything she might say. He was worried, but he was more so worried about his people right now, after all he knew Lavality could take care of herself as she has proven that time and time again.

"I wonder if Tzhali is doing ok...." she asked herself as she looked up toward the stairs. "Haven't seen that wookiee in a while." she grinned and stuffed her hands in her pocket and walked toward the gate. When she placed her hand on her she suddenly felt a presence behind her, she turned around, but saw nothing. My Imagenation? she wondered to herself and continued outside where two of her soldiers, who had been on a transport that had arrived not to long ago, where waiting for her.

"Order's ma'am?" one asked. Lavality sighed and looked toward the city. "We'll leave the search inside to our allies. I want you to take Alpha and Beta squads to search the near by caves, if you find McGain, report it to me and do not engage him."

"Can't we use the drones?" Another soldier asked. "No, McGain is our intelligence officers, hell I wouldn't be surprised if he was watching us right now." she said and the soldiers nodded and rushed off to relay their orders to their squads.

She looked toward the far hills and then back toward the camp. If we manage to take him out without starting any problems here... it'll be a miracle..

While Naosha contacted Shissa Trazu filled Asri in on what was going on.

“Formal or casual?” The albino asked.

“Don’t know. I’m hoping for casual…but I have the feeling it’s ‘formal’.” Trazu said with a sigh.

“Oh…so I get to see you in a suit?” Asri teased.

“I pray not…” Trazu growled.

“Wish I could go with, but I don’t think my skin tone will go over well with the party goers. Besides…I have my first flying lesson tonight.”

“Not Lumier or Lavality I hope…” He had bad memories of Lavality’s flying and heard even worst about Lumiers…

“Ha, no love. Lavality got me in touch with an instructor in town.”

“Thank the goddess. Last thing we need is to have another crazy flyer.”

“Really love…they may be ‘crazy’ but they keep you alive.”

Just then Naosha returned from the comm. room. “We are in luck. It’s going to be a kind of ‘girls night out’ dinner party, so she had invited all the female Councilors.”

“She didn’t mind me coming along?” Trazu asked.

“Oh no. She’s been wanting to meet you Trazu. Goddess knows she’s seen plenty of Varcanna, with her being in line to take my seat some day.”

“Hmm…I wonder how likely it is that our traitor won’t show….”

“We’ll know when we get there.” Naosha said with a shrug. “Oh…I dug this out of our closet for you son.” When she held it out to him Trazu groaned and Asri broke out into laughter.

It was a suit.