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Shab nodded, and told Kraven to wake her when they were nearer the coordinates they'd set, and curled up in the copilots chair to nap.

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Astra sighed. "I don't know." She admitted. "But it can't be good. To violate a mind like that..." She trailed off and took a breath. "But how can I judge her without hearing her tell it? Once we rescue her, we can find out if she has been lying to us and how dangerous she is if she has."

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Both Nei and Xam decided that they needed rest within a few minutes of each other, with Xam leaving first for the dorm, deciding that once she knew Fraya might be dangerous, the specifics - especially force related - were irrelevant. Nei continued listening for a moment but also determined that she wasn't going to learn anything useful by staying.

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Fraya sat up straight as she made her decision, before using her hands to push herself out of the chair. "I want two adjacent holding cells cleared." She declared. "I shall be borrowing one of them, and there are two stowaways from Nar Shadaa who you can find here." She explained, leaning over one of the crewmen to bring up the ship schematics to alert them to where Shkala and Kric were hiding.

"That doesn't mean it's fixed." Shab corrects. "Will you be able to track them if they're not still where they said they are?"

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Astra took a breath, there was only one logical reason she could think of, but she didn't want to admit it. "Because it wasn't real." She replied. "If it was a real memory, she'd only have to reach out and open her mind. The fact that she had to force her way into mine to leave her message suggests that it was fabricated."

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Xam left Lilithen to her moping, making a note not to rely on the woman in any situation. Anyone who was that determined not to show any weakness for fear of others judgement's wasn't to be trusted, and were weaker in ways that were more dangerous than they realised. They were also excellent liars, and despite her own brilliant ability to lie, she knew to be wary of such people. She found Nei in the corridor. "Eavesdropping? I'm almost proud." She joked quietly as she looked at what Nei was looking at.

Nei was in tune with her surroundings because of the Force, so she wasn't surprised by Xam's almost silent approach. "I call it learning."

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"This is possibly the worst idea either of us have ever had..." Shkala muttered.

"Normally I'd agree, but they've already forced us to abandon three hiding places. Our best chance is the escape pods, and our luck improves when allied with the Force." Kric retorted equally quietly as they crawled.

"And we should have one on board." Shkala vocalised the unspoken part. "But by finding her we expose ourselves to the entire crew, and security systems."

"Got a better idea?" Kric challenged, pausing to turn to look at her and she pulled a face. She was too nice to want to abandon someone who was on their side.

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Fraya reclined in the captains chair, listening to the Force and weighing up whether or not to just kill them, or to let them think she was still on their side, that she had been imprisoned, and go back to infiltrating. She had some time to make up her mind yet, though. She intended to make the most of that time to make her decision.

"They already sent the coordinates." Shab replied off-handly. "Repairs first."

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Xam shrugs. "Act tough all you like, but if there's one thing I've learnt - and I say this as someone who usually works alone - is that when people act unnecessarily tough, it's because they're hiding something that will ruin them eventually." She paused. "And if everyone else is lucky, just yourself." She added before leaving her to her moping.

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Astra crosses her legs as she sits down on the floor of the common room. "It's not a wound." She replied. "Fraya forced her way into my mind to give me a message." She explained. "She gave me a vision of her being taken by Sith." Astra sighed. "I think it was a faked memory." She admitted unhappily.

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Nei leaves Sara Jane in one of the dormitory rooms and returns to the common room to find Astra and Nitsua talking, and pauses in the doorway.

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"I think it's time I paid Panella a visit." Fraya decided, and she easily had the command crew persuaded and a course plotted. Then she paused as she felt a murmur through the Force. "I think we might need to review our security protocols."

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"Okay, that's everything we can fix outside of a dock." Shab decided.

"Oi, I'm the one doing all of these repairs!" Shab shouted back. "You can have everyone else's creds, but not mine."

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Astra came too not long after, looking around the room, it was quiet, the kind of quiet that precedes a storm. Then she realised she had a splitting headache and pressed a hand to her head. Nitsua noticed and she nodded as she put a wave of Force healing through her head to sort it and asked for an update, which he gave.

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Nei sat down next to Sara Jane, knowing enough about what the girl must be thinking at this stage in the proceedings. Knowing what it's like for the universe to want you to walk a path you didn't sight up for. "I can make it easy for you to sleep if you want." She offered.

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Xam easily found Lilithen, she was used to working in the shadows, weighing the woman up as she watched her hiding. "You know, losing one fight doesn't mean you're a bad fighter. However, not learning from it does." Xam started softly, naturally entering her usual persuasive state, the trusting friend persona, and sitting down opposite Lilithen. "If you were drugged, we might be able to find out what it is if it's still in your system..." She suggested. "It might let us figure out who got to you."

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Kric and Shkala found themselves in the air circulation system to enable them to find a storage compartment they could wait it out in. Until everything hit the fan.

"Somehow I doubt they did that on purpose." Shab corrected, opening the incoming message Shkala had sent. "We've got the coordinates. Do we have another scrap left in this thing before we dock?"

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"We took care of the guards who found us, but someone's gonna find them soon." Shkala explained as she quickly checked none of them were about to wake up on them.

"Cue a lock-down." Kric followed up. "We can hide it out till we dock, or we can try and retrieve Fraya beforehand."

"But we need to decide now." Shkala added firmly.

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"Hide." Shab decided. "I'll start working on what repairs we can do without docking." She paused as she found the energy to push herself out of her chair. "Unless you've got a better idea?"

Just as Shkala finished sending the coordinates and had set up the vid feed she'd found Fraya on, Kric ducked sharply to avoid being seen by a security guard.

Shkala followed his lead and ducked behind the console she was using, and locked it as she heard the first guard 'trip' over Kric's sword. She scooted to the side of the console to see what was happening.

The first guard was no problem, leaving two left, one who was duelling with Kric and looked about to promptly lose. Shkala took aim at the third, before he could interfere, causing two stunned guards to turn to the console they hadn't realised anyone was near. The one she'd shot fell instantly, and Kric quickly dispatched the other with the distraction. "Safe might just have gone out the airlock." Shkala explained.

Nei moves to Astra this time, easily sensing the fact that her mental turmoil has subsided, then nods. "She's just tired." She explained. "In fact, we could all do with rest." She adds, knowing that she doesn't have the energy to spare to imbue Astra with. She can't remember the last time they were able to rest without worrying.

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Shkala and Kric look up as they hear their comm. Years ago Kric had managed to find a pair of implants that would sit in their ears and ensure communication that only they could hear between them. Shkala had hacked the new comm system to work with them.

"You might've been right about this getting us killed..." Kric muttered.

"I'm always right." Shkala joked.

"We had to take another ride out." Kric explained. "We followed Fraya, Shkala's working her magic now."

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Shab sat up straight again. "Fraya?" She asked. "Is she okay? Astra's pretty worried about her." She holds up a hand to stop Kraven from cutting in in confusion.

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"Think so, she walked on as if nothing unusual was happening." Kric replied.

"I got it." Shkala replied as she got into the systems. "Do you want tactical plans, coordinates or vid feeds?"

Ah game three.

...if you find a way, let me know.

There's probably a mod for that tbf.