The three of them arrive at the temple to find the sentry on the gates is not the temple knight, but armed human, quite possibly one of the slaves. When Kolath announces their presence, he summons a messenger to fetch Jorlak.

* * * *

Jorlak's discussions with the knight are interrupted by a messenger, one of the kitchen slaves. "There's someone from The Legion asking for your name", she says.

<Marlith>

He stays toward the back, quite happy to let the Legionnaire do the talking.

Jorlak

A short time later, the priest arrives at the gate. "Yes?"

Kolath


The tall Kandar legionnaire nodded his acknowledgment of the priest.

"I am Tavoleyr Kolath. We met before, I believe."

Hollis

Hollis spent the time studying both the priest, and the facility with an eye toward breaking in if it were ever required. You never knew when such information was going to come in handy.

Jorlak

The priest nods, and looks at each of the others. "Yes, we have."

Kolath


He looked a question at Marlith, expecting him to speak next and then looked back at the priest.

"We need your help. Marlith here will explain."

<Marlith>

He considered the information that he had heard and seen over the last couple of days, collecting his thoughts. Finally he spoke.

"Guruinath had been captured on the air ship after it had fired on the Academy of the Mind by Hollis who is working with Kolath of the Legion. I was selected to represent the Academy in the group sent to interrogate him. At the Legion Barracks, where the prisoner had been incarcerated, we were told that a psi monitor had been active for something like half a minute just before our arrival. We were escorted to Guruinath's cell. When we arrived, the psi detector went off again and Guruinath vanished from the cell. We would like to see if we can use the imprints from the detectors to locate the rogue that has been causing all this trouble."

[[ I hope that is right. Feel free to correct anything that I got wrong. ]]

Hollis

"We need Guruinath back in custody, and we need to know who is helping him, what their agenda is ... I mean, why fire on the Academy? Why attack the Legion by slipping them faulty weapons? And where the bad guys are. Currently. Too."

Hollis added the last, to make Marlith feel better about his summary.

Jorlak

The priest frowns. "Unfortunately, things have become busy here. A larger concern is that I am not familiar with your psi detectors; I do not know whether I could interpret the 'imprints' in any useful way."

Kolath


"Then come with us and you will soon know," Kolath said, gesturing toward the door.

While Jorlak has no experience of Karazthan psi-detectors, he has learned a lot from 'reading' their technological devices.

Jorlak

The priest glances deeper into the temple. "There is something else that I will be needed for here. But they will not need my help immediately. How long do you think this will take?"

Kolath


This was hardly his area of expertise and the Kandar Legionnaire looked a question at Hollis and Marlith.

Hollis

"None of us have ever done anything like this," Hollis volunteered. "Maybe an hour? Maybe more if you find something interesting."

<Marlith>

He shrugged and, much as it concerned him to be doing so, nodded in agreement with Hollis.

Kolath


"Well, let us be on our way then," Kolath said after the others had spoken.

"We've lost enough time already."

The Kandar left the room and headed back the way they had come.

[OK folks - Are we done here and ready to move on to the next scene?]

[Jorlak needs to let the knight know about his delay. Helping the outsiders first is probably better than letting them realize that something more important is going on here.]

[[ well assuming they are not going to release Marlith until this has all sorted itself out, he is ready <weg> ]]

Hollis, saddened by the sudden deterioration of the budding romance between her and Marlith <g>, is ready to move on.

Hmmmm ... I wouldn't have thought that Marlith was her type <wink>

[ooc: How can you say that when she inspires such romantic notions in Marlith? Like "I hope I never see her again" or "Oh no, not *her*..." <g>]

[[ well some times no means no ... at least until they get into that desperate, life or death, situation that always seems to bring the 'mismatched' couple together in the movies <weg> ]]

Aha. Right . <g>