"But, sir," answered the voice of his portly aide, "I thought we had agreed to meet in the casino." Londo heard a shriek of laughter in the background.
"The fiesta is over for us. We have intelligence to gather. I take it you do not know that G'Kar is gone?"
"Is he here yet?" asked Vir, having a hard time coping with the noise in the casino. "No, I haven't seen him."
"Never mind," said Londo. "You'll hear about it soon enough. Come to my quarters, as I ordered. And look out for suspicious persons, especially suspicious Narn persons. Mollari out."
Hmmm, thought Londo Mollari with a wry smile, they suspect another Narn. But they hadn't made any arrests or even admitted that it was murder, so their case must be lacking. He would help them if he could because he didn't want to feel any more Narn blades at his throat. On the other hand, if this incident were to mushroom out of control and cause chaos on the Narn Council, that could lead to a weakened grip on some of the Narn colonies, which was not such a bad thing. It might be a good time to foment insurrection on those colonies stolen from the Centauri.
Londo Mollari sipped his wine thoughtfully.
CHAPTER 3
"I have things to do!" said Na'Toth as she planted her feet firmly in the center of the corridor and refused to budge.
"Like roughing up the ambassador," said Garibaldi. "If you really want to find G'Kar's murderer, you'll make time to come with me."
She lowered her jaw slightly. "You know who did it?"
"Let's just say, I have a pretty good guess. Come on, the captain is waiting."
When Garibaldi and Na'Toth reached the captain's office, Ivanova was just completing her report. Basically, the repair crew, the rescue crew, and the reconnaissance ship had uncovered a whole bunch of nothing. There was nothing wrong with the docking mechanism or the airlock, and there was nothing left of the small craft and her pilot, except for a billion particles scattered through space. It would take days to gather enough of these particles to analyze them, and she had assigned crews to the task.