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 Cecyllia ? recovered enough from her ordeal to be furiously angry at Phil, who steered the freight skimmer through the night of Brown Moon with yet unknown destination. “What is going on Phil? Are we just pawns in some game of yours? Why are we fleeing, why is the largest Police precinct corrupt? Why are we running? We are not criminals!”

 Phil said.” It was you who wanted to come along, that this case is big was clear from the start. Did you not wonder why you were expected to make this a shut and close case?”

 Ruddick, was in a similar mood and said. “Quit being the schoolmaster for a while and simply tell us. We aren’t immortal, we don’t have 3000 years of experience and how in the world did you survive without a heart?”

 Phil looked out the side window and said. “Perfect.”

 He landed the skimmer in a huge scrap yard piled up with old, and derelict skimmers of every size and make and cut off the engines. “Okay kids, I tell you what I know but you were never pawns or bait or anything like that. I never thought the others would ? go that far, but then our opponent is the most ruthless, coldest and deadliest individual in the known Galaxy, at least I think it is her.”

 Cecyllia flashed an angry gaze at Phil. “No one is interrupting you. So please go ahead.”

 “When you called and told me about a Shiss raid onto a Union Prison Colony. I knew something was wrong, very wrong. ? Caught and convicted Shiss raiders are not sent to Union Pruison Colonies, but to high security stockades, at least in General and if convicted for piracy there is only one sentence and it isn’t incarceration.”

 Ruddick interrupted. “Didn’t we establish it wasn’t a Shiss raid?”

 Cecyllia cuffed Ruddick. “Don’t interrupt him, or we might never get the whole story out of him. I know for a fact there was a Yellow Throat among the Prisoners and at least for a while we thought he might have been the motivation for the raid.”

 “Since you are with me kiddos, I have told you to think and use your own intellect.” Cecyllia wrinkled her forehead. “If there was a Shiss then he was sent there by Prison Shuttle and since he is in the system for us to find, it could never been any Shiss Raiders. Shiss Raiders have no access to Union Police Files or could generate transfer orders. They come from Corrections and the Justice Department.”

 “Exactly, my pretty Saresii dame, and you need to have serious connections to pull a job like that. No foreign outside force could have done that.”

 “Are you saying this is a Government conspiracy?” Ruddick gasped. “Not in the Union, we don’t have those.” He said it with a stubborn tone but it was clear he didn’t even believe his own voice.”

 Cecyllia was