Thread:Vanessa Ravencroft/@comment-25539177-20141231190158/@comment-25539177-20141231193554

Actually you wrote basil condition (Police officer to Eric about Exa.)

The basilar skull fracture you mention a few paragraphs earlier was the officer to Eric about how one of the other Port Roaches was killed.

I understood the skull fracture part, but the part about Exa I didn't.

"The guy in Fresh Water Tank access room has a basilar skull fracture . The one you stuffed under the water pipeline has a crushed crushed rib cage, and this guy right here blunt trauma to the temple, that cut his lights for good. The other is about to take the final trip and the Roach King bleeding a good deal.

I wasn't very proud of my sad record. "What do I have to do next?"

"Whatever you like, you are free to go."

"What will happen with them?"

"The ones alive are old enough and will be charged with kidnapping and attempted murder.

I doubt the judge or the Jury will take long to come to a verdict. We got 3 witness accounts, Poly Verified and physical evidence. I figure they will be hanged in a week or so.

The girl, well she is according to my Bio scanner 12 years old and a minor, but there is no family or verifiable place of origin. No worries, she will go back to Mother Moore's and then be on her way to Slammer Moon. She will be a real good citizen by the time she is eighteen."

Exa starred with a hollow expression on her small face at the floor.

"Officer is there any way to prevent that? I mean her going to the Slammer moon?"

He tapped his PDD. "Well she is a Non Cit and technically if she paid her fines for her long string of theft charges, Legal Central could agree to a good will bond. Meaning she can turn herself in. But who would want to pay the 600 credits for something as worthless as her?"

"She is a sentient being and she should be priceless instead of worthless just for that reason. I guess the shiny and good Union has a dark and dirty Underside after all!"

"Nothing is perfect Citizen, besides we have places and institutions to deal with such, like Mother Moore and the Social Bureau."

"I am going to pay her fines!"

He shrugged. "It's your money Citizen, but she will be out in the Port Concourse tomorrow and steal and beg as soon as you are gone. She never keeps her basil condition."