"What. Are. These. Creatures?" -o- muttered as her eyes swept the frozen crew. "They're. Half. Arakai. And. Half. Something. Else. How. Very. Strange."
-oo—oo- narrowed her six eyes with a sharper feeling. The more she studied the spaceship and its inhabitants, the more she felt like she had stumbled upon the key to solving the mystery of what had happened in the Strehegeld Star System and to their outpost world and Divine Mother o-o-o-o.
She passed on a message to the forensics team aboard her own spaceship, requesting them to try and conduct more light-harvesting operations, painstaking as they were, to try and get as many details on the spaceships that were in the star system at the time of the battle between Divine Mother o-o-o-o and whoever killed her.
She had a feeling that they would find faint similarities between those spaceships and the spaceship before them.
