Jace shook his head, looking impatient. "Don't try to sweep this away by attributing her actions to a mental health issue. Maybe you're right and she wasn't working with the Tsavitee. She still exposed sensitive information to our enemy. Anybody could have intercepted those transmissions. That alone is enough to sentence her for treason."
"Only if her actions weren't approved by someone higher up," Raider said thoughtfully.
"What are you talking about?" Jace asked.
Raider glanced at Kira. "She said Walker knew."
"That makes sense. They were always close."
Walker had lost a sister in a hovercraft accident before the war. Blue reminded him of her.
"You think he would have compromised your position for her?" Jace asked scornfully. "Walker wasn't that type of person."
"No, he wasn't," Raider agreed. "At least not without permission."
"He didn't ask me," Kira said at Jace's look.
She wouldn't have agreed to that. Not even for Blue.
"You think he asked Commander Berry."
Despite the disbelief in Jace's tone, he looked like he was considering it.
"Not just him," Kira said, looking down at the tablet. "Himoto knew too."
Beforehand or after. Either way, he hadn't done anything with the information for a reason. Kira was betting it was because Blue was a red herring who wasn't actually involved.
Jace sat back, looking defeated. "I can't release her just on that."
"I'm not asking you to," Kira responded, opening the rest of the files and flipping through them. "Just take a second look at everything while keeping in mind what we told you and whatever you find on Diesel's device."
If Jin was here, she could have him look into Blue's transmissions and see whether they were the leak. She didn't have his skills, though, and Odin was busy.
The smile dropped from Kira's face as she clicked on a series of video stills taken from the miners' last calls.
"See something?" Raider asked, leaning forward.
Kira didn't answer as she ignored the bearded man in the foreground and zoomed in on the familiar looking side profile.
"Pallas," she snarled, recognizing the half shaved head and the slant of his nose.
Kira exited out of the photo, stabbing her finger at the next one as she looked for a better angle.
"Show me your face," she hissed, moving on to the next when the previous proved disappointing.
Over and over until she stopped on the last photo. The only one where her brother was staring directly at the camera. The look on his face menacing.
Under his image, someone had typed The Enforcer.
"What is it?" Raider asked when Kira froze in disbelief.
This wasn't possible.
Pallas couldn't have been there. And Himoto had known nothing about the forty three’s organizational composition or the role Pallas played in their ranks.
Then how did he know what Pallas was to the forty three? Their enforcer.
Kira's blood ran icy as she remembered all the times Pallas had targeted the Curs. Always managing to stay just on this side of the line of what would infuriate Kira enough to go for his throat.
