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of taking a CSI agenda home." Subordinates handed a daunting task
could comfort themselves with the thought It could be worse he could
want a CSI agenda, too.

Even Drayson found it difficult to discover when the CSI would take up
Pakkpekatt's request. And when he finally did learn about that
session, it was too late to find a way to listen in.

"Last item on the agenda is the Teljkon expedition," said General
Carlist Rieekan. "May I assume that you all received your copies of
the report?" He waited a moment, then, hearing no dissent, went on.

"Discussion, please."

Senator Krall Praget of Edatha, chairman of the CSI, leaned back in his
chair and combed his fingers back through his skulldown. "What is
there to decide?

The mission was a failure. Close the books."

"Lando Calrissian and his team are still aboard the vagabond," Rieekan
reminded him gently.
"What reason do you have to think they're still alive?" Praget
asked.

"Why would any captain capable of acting as surely and decisively as
the captain of the vagabond did in escaping make the mistake of not
repelling boarders with equal vigor?"

"It is possible that they were taken prisoner," said Rieekan. "It is
even possible that they escaped capture."

Praget pulled his datapad toward him. "How do you account for the
contact suit gauntlet found by the recovery teams? It's Calrissian's,
I believe."

"I don't have an explanation," Rieekan admitted.

"General Rieekan," said Senator Cair Tok Noimm.

"Do I understand correctly that the gauntlet is undamaged and there is
no blood on it?"

"That's correct."

She nodded. "In that case, this gauntlet does not seem to me to be
reason enough to abandon these people to their fate."

"It's not clear to me what we can do for them," said Senator Amamanam,
who represented the Bdas on Coruscant.