I've tried to stop listening. I am aware it's not polite.

This time, I knew there was something going on; I noticed the whispers and the closed doors, though I tried to ignore them. But I was not altogether surprised when Rygel brought me the tape.

I was, however, altogether surprised when I saw what was on it.

The days of my arrival aboard Moya I remember only when I am forced to remember them; I've tried to put them out of my mind. I would have been quite content never to hear the name Velorek again.

But then Rygel showed me the tape. And I saw Velorek again and saw how he tried to care for me as I took my place aboard this Leviathan. I remember the pain so vividly, during the bonding. He said I would get used to it, that I would adjust to the pain of being artificially bonded to Moya. I have not gotten used to it.

That was three cycles ago.

Yes. The tape - a Peacekeeper surveillance recording - chronicled those days with detail I'd just as soon have forgotten. It also showed me details I might have actually forgotten, or perhaps never knew.

One detail in particular.

Velorek, the Peacekeeper assigned to oversee my bonding with this Leviathan, was accompanied by a female Pleisar soldier for whom he seemed to care, deeply. Someone I too have since come to trust and understand in ways I had not before with any biped.

The tape showed her actions before I was brought aboard Moya; it showed how the Pilot before me was killed, and disposed of, and the cruel, crucial role that particular Pleisar commando played in this brutal ordeal.

At times I find unfathomable what some will do under the orders of a Peacekeeper. Velorek was a persuasive individual, I'll admit, but the actions he and Crais demanded of this commando were - she had to have known they were - pure evil.

What kind of sentient being would allow themselves to become such a monster?

And now it is too late. What's been done has been done. And this woman - our own Officer Sun - can never, ever be redeemed.

Guest Cast

Lani John Tupu...........Capt. Crais
Alex Dimitriades...........Velorek

Writer..................Naren Shankar
Director.................Tony Tilse