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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doghead" data-source="post: 2165885" data-attributes="member: 8243">Saanath, human male merchantSaanath climbs to his feet."Right. The datacomp was fairly heavily damaged, and the files encrypted so the recoverery has been slow, and to a degree only partial. The files relate to his hunts on various worlds across the domain. One of which was on Kansas, my home dustball. Thats were he took the Afeakhtorow, er, that's the large, rather dangerous jumping cat that's down in storage. The Aslan hunt then with spears, 'cos the Aslan are a bit mental like that."Saanath grins at Trel. He falls silent for a moment and his gaze takes on a far away look. With a shake of his head, he resumes."Anyway, the story doesn't gel. According to Blair's itinery, he was on Kansas about a month ago. In the city, around the starport, that would have been summer, it's true. But Afeakhtorow live in the northern hemisphere, where it would have been deepest, which is pretty deep on Kansas, winter. The cat down in the hold had it's summer coloration. Unless the dates he was on the planet are wrong, which seems unlikely given the rest of his itinery, Blair did not take this cat as he said he did."And then there's another thing. Blair says he met with the Wardens of the Office of Game and Fisheries, to arrange for taking his quarry off world, pay his export tax, and stock up on some antivenom for an upcoming reptile hunt. He describes the Warden he met with as a young Solomani man with blonde hair, blue eyes by the name of Carl Martin. The thing is, on Kansas, Warden, like most other titles in planetary government, is hereditary. For as long as I or anyone else in my family has lived on Kansas, the Wardens have been members of John Wardens' family. in other words, John the Warden. I went to school with John. On a planet with only one major town and only 7,000 sentients, it difficult not to know all the families at least in passing. The Wardens aren't blonde and they certainly aren't Solomani."It doesn't really tell us what or why, but it does seem to confirm that Armand wasn't who he said he was."Saanath glances around the table to see if there are any questions. If not, he resumes his seat.</blockquote>

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