SCIMITAR
EIGHT HOURS FROM HADARIAN SPACE
"…forgive me Chief Magistrate Sel'ke, if after what has occurred I do not take anything the Kavalians say at face value." Andro spat venomously. "They have killed my father… tried to kill me twice, kidnapped my mother and hired a mercenary band to kidnap another! They have helped an illegal government come to power on Hadaria, usurping my mother the rightful ruler, and you expect me to believe they will not attempt to kill me again the moment they get the chance?"
"Of that I have little doubt Milord." Sel'ke answered. "However, I was selected by your father twenty years ago to fill this seat. His words to me were clear that day. He expected me to do what was right no matter what world I came from. I will do what I must in order to defuse a potentially explosive situation."
"I understand that Chief Magistrate." Andro spoke. His eyes narrowed and he got to his feet slowly. "What has happened?"
