Hmmm. A meeting of spies, this does appear. Layel floated out again, invisible. He pondered the import of this tidbit, then sent a mental communication with Hodarg and Sapphire.

"Lt. Hodarg, Lt. Rose... I haven't found much, but this will likely make up. It seems every month on a single Friday, which would be late tonight in this case, our Planetary Head of Security happens to head to the Spark Bar not far from here, and manages to vanish from his escorts for an hour or two. Think he might be meeting a fellow agent there?"

*His thoughts a denied me, though I am unsure if he is protected from all my gifts. I would pull a string or two, to see if I can, my touch is deft and I doubt the agent would be aware of it, but I am wary of hidden safeguards. For now, let's see what Layel can find with some direct surveillance. You idea does hold great merit though, and I will keep it in mind, if the agent remains... elusive.* Sapphire tried to send the new recruit a pulse of thankful regard, but her enticing lips tightened as the wailing souls held within Chance's breast tore the gift asunder.

To Sapphire's delight, and those who could feel it emanating from her, Layel did find a promising lead. * Excellent! Captain Nami, progress is being made,* Sapphire conveyed to the entire crew of the Scheherazade, providing them with the information Lt. Haete had found. *If I may suggest, I will maintain oversight from here, poised to inflict what I can, while Lt. Haete shadows him on the ground. Lt. Hodarg can remain with me, or aid Haete on the ground, if he can maintain his remote viewing for me. Nami, if you can spare Chance, I would like her with me, to see if she can help with breaking the agent's Mental Shield, unless she can do it surreptitiously from her remote location. It is up to you, Captain, if you think we may need more firepower to apprehend the agent and whoever he is meeting with.

Kat gets up and stretches for a bit while maintaining his watch on the Head of Security, as he replies to Sapphire, *If Lt Haete thinks that an additional physical presence would be required and you can maintain a link to me for the visual data then I have no objections to continuing my observation from closer to the target. Unfortunately, you would be out of my Telepathic range should I go down to the surface.*

"Thank you, Tanya," Captain Daylan said, nodding. "That will be helpful in my opening statements." The woman nodded and turned away, leaving Namiah to her thoughts. She began to write her speech, but found that her mind was straying to distracting thoughts regarding the shape of Tanya's body. Namiah closed her eyes to the distraction and began to breathe deeply.

She'd just refocused her thoughts when Sapphire's decadent mind touched hers again. The sudden connection with the sensual Elan shredded that control again, and Sapphire was delighted at the erotic thoughts in her Captain's mind. For once though, the blue-haired woman managed to say on-topic, mostly because she knew that Namiah wanted her to do that. And in part, she wanted to save the teasing for later, when she might immediately reap some benefits from her leader being in a more... pliant mood.

"Ensign Chance," Namiah said softly, "I think you've had enough exposure to the planet. Please return to the ship and see if Lt. Rose or another officer needs something." She gave the other woman a nod and a smile to show she wasn't sending her back out of disapproval.

It takes them a few moments, not all that long, but about a minute or so, before Chance is now aboard the ship, leaving the Captain and Kaien down on the surface, and the rest of the crew aboard the starship. Once there, the young magi would be there to help sapphire however she could.

Even as Chance appears back on the ship, Tanya considers the Captain a moment, then smiled. "If there is nothing else you need, when should I tell the council you wish to speak with them?"

Captain Daylan nodded slowly. "No point in delaying," she said easily. "Tanya, would you please set that up? I'll be working on my speech until that point, so if you could ask there to be no interruptions? Thank you."

As their host left them alone, Namiah turned to Kaien. "Would you like to check security protocols?" Her smile was charming, full of her natural beauty and grace. "I'm afraid I'm about to become very boring."

Kaien nods. "Unless you're going to order me to leave you Captain, I think it best if we stay together. My abilities allow me to do checks quickly, I can easily do it before you address the delegates."

He smiles, which was to say he didn't frown. "Besides, together we're a much bigger target."

Namiah smiled at Kaien and settled herself on the couch. Drawing a deep breath, she relaxed into a light meditation, her eyes drifting shut as her body relaxed. In the quiet of her mind, she focused her thoughts, shutting away anger and aggression, temptation and bitterness. In the peace that was left after she'd swept those away, she began to compose her message of strength and unity.

Chance nodded quietly at Captain Daylan glad that she didn’t cause any further trouble… for now. She focused her mind in preparation to the transport back to the ship and tried to keep her anxiety in check as she was ordered to help Sapphire Rose – the beautiful Elan.

Still a bit disoriented and not quite used to the ships architecture it took Chance a bit longer to find Sapphire’s quarters. Clearing her throat she approached the doors which automatically opened – Sapphire was expecting her obviously. Chance’s eyes went wide at the sight of the supernaturally enhanced Elan and she remembered the touch of her voice on her skin?

„I… Captain Daylan asked… ahm, ordered me to…“, Chance was having a hard time to keep her focus and form a coherent sentence. Taking another deep breath she started anew. „I’m here to help – if you need me.“

It would be late in the evening before the Head of Security would depart for his unusual meeting, so the folks aboard the Scheherazade were waiting and planning together. Perhaps Chance and Sapphire would try to merge their powers, in some attempt to break though the Security Head's mental block, but how that would work remained to be seen.

Meanwhile, one the surface, while the Captain meditated and prepared to speak before the council, in what might become the most critical meeting yet. While she purged herself of anger and aggression, Kaien remained on guard, something that proved to be a good thing, in fact, sense somewhere around 2 hours later, there was a call to him from the security guarding them in the suite they were preparing. "Lt. Saotome.. we've dropped off the communications grid.. we strongly suspect some sort of assassination attempt. We hope to prevent them from getting though, but our tactical analysis suggests the target is your Captain."