During the whole flight from Babylon 5 to Minbar Vir had thought about Londo. He could not believe that his friend had sent him away, now that he might need him the most. He feared that, with him gone, Londo would be lost completely to the influence of Mr. Morden. When the ship finally approached the planet, he forgot all that had left him sleepless in the last two days.
Even from orbit he could see that Minbar was absolutely beautiful and he regretted that he had not come here before. After the landing Vir took his bag and stepped outside. The sight left him speechless for a while. The city of Yedor, where the Centauri embassy was located could not be compared with anything he had seen before. He stood there, looked around and waited for his contact, a Minbari called Helann that was supposed to show him where he was going to live from now on.
One hour passed and no one seemed to be looking for him, so Vir decided to explore the area for a while. Even though he did not want to go to too far away, he soon found himself in another part of the city and could not find his way back. He did not speak Minbari good enough to ask anyone for the way back to the spaceport, no one except Delenn who had taught him the basics had ever bothered to teach him, not even Londo. Just as he thought that he was completely lost he saw a human girl, about fifteen or sixteen years old, that seemed vaguely familiar to him, although he could not remember where he had met her before. He called out to her and she turned around. The Minbari she had been talking to looked at him as well. He did not seem very happy about the interruption, but the girl ignored it.
She came towards Vir and stretched out her right hand. He took it, like he had seen the humans do a lot of times and squeezed it. She grimaced, obviously he had hurt her. He tried to apologize, but she only shook her head as if she had expected something like this. Then she said: " My name is Alisa Beldon. I think I have seen you before, but I do not know where". That was when Vir remembered.
He had been in the Zocalo one morning, when a trader had seen a thief and called security. Then suddenly someone shouted for a med team and he had seen her, lying on the floor, covering her head with her hands. After that time he had not seen her again, he only heard a rumour that a human girl, which must have been Alisa, had left with a Minbari cruiser.
He returned to the present when he heard Alisa cough. She stared at him, obviously still waiting for an answer, so he replied: "I only saw you once on Babylon 5, when you tried to steal something from the Zocalo and then fell to the floor. My name is Vir Cotto, back then I was the assistant of the Centauri ambassador. Now I am the Centauri ambassador to Minbar. "
Alisa smiled, she seemed satisfied with the answer. But before she could say anything else, the Minbari next to her suddenly grew impatient and started to pull her away. Before they left, she called over her shoulder: "I will see you again, Vir Cotto, be sure of that."
After they were gone, it felt like someone had placed something in his left pocket. He pulled it out and saw that it was a map of the city. Obviously Alisa had not lost her skill, because Vir had not even noticed that she had given it to him.