The door bursts inward in a spray of molten plastic and metal, and in comes ghem-Colonel Benin, and a thoroughly armed squad behind him.
Kety's people spontaneously decide in favor of surrender.
Vorreedi steps in behind Benin. Ivan is there, too, shifting anxiously.
"Good evening, haut Kety," says Benin, bowing cordially. "By the personal order of Emperor Fletchir Giaja, it is my duty to arrest you and ghem-General Naru both upon the serious charge of treason to the Empire. And," he adds, smiling, "complicity in the murder of the Imperial Servitor the Ba Lura."
Linyabel relaxes considerably, though not enough to drop Miles, and she doesn't take down the force screen until the arrests are all complete. Then she takes it down to let Nadina out and rearrange Miles more comfortably on the chair's arm, her own arm around him to steady him there.
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Date: 2014-07-18 06:22 pm (UTC)The door bursts inward in a spray of molten plastic and metal, and in comes ghem-Colonel Benin, and a thoroughly armed squad behind him.
Kety's people spontaneously decide in favor of surrender.
Vorreedi steps in behind Benin. Ivan is there, too, shifting anxiously.
"Good evening, haut Kety," says Benin, bowing cordially. "By the personal order of Emperor Fletchir Giaja, it is my duty to arrest you and ghem-General Naru both upon the serious charge of treason to the Empire. And," he adds, smiling, "complicity in the murder of the Imperial Servitor the Ba Lura."
Linyabel relaxes considerably, though not enough to drop Miles, and she doesn't take down the force screen until the arrests are all complete. Then she takes it down to let Nadina out and rearrange Miles more comfortably on the chair's arm, her own arm around him to steady him there.