They were here to find Caius.No one else.
“Do you understand?”Kira asked.
Az nodded.“We do.”
“Good because I don’t want to have this conversation again.”
They wouldn’t like it if she was forced to rehash something that should have already been settled.
“You won’t.You have my word,” Az promised.
Kira hoped so.
“Since you’re still unconvinced, you should finish your search of the rest of the enclave.Maybe it will yield an alternative explanation for what happened here,” Kira suggested.
She wouldn’t hold her breath though.This was the work of a pirate clan.She could feel it in her bones.
“We’ll do just that,” Bez bit out.
He tilted his head at the other two.
With a hint of reluctance in her manner, Az followed Bez and Pye back down the hallway.
“This would be a lot easier if they would simply take us at our word,” Jin complained.
“They don’t know us.”
Jin looked up at Kira.“They also don’t trust us.”
Her smile was brief.“Yes.”
And until they did, they’d keep wasting time.
Fifteen
Kira
“Anythingelseinthoselogs that I need to know about?”Kira asked.
She knew Jin.If there was something sensitive in there, he wouldn’t have mentioned it in front of the others.
“There might be one thing.”
Kira waited.
“I found no mention of Caius’s arrival or stay.There was no record of him anywhere in the logs.Past or present.”
“That is strange.”
During her conversation earlier, Az indicated that Caius had fairly strong ties with this enclave through his parents.That would have meant visits.Not just once or twice but going back years.
“Maybe they concealed his arrival for some reason,” Finn suggested.
“It’s possible,” Kira allowed.
They might not have wanted any record of his visits getting out should the enclave ever fall.It wasn’t a good look for a high ranking member of House Roake to be so friendly with wanderers.The omission could have been their way of trying to protect him.
“I’ll keep digging.See if I can turn up anything else,” Jin said.
