Arrayed in four perfect circles around the perimeter of the Fountain Palace were all of the staff that served in the Queen Mother's home, and right now, each individual among them was personally being investigated by Allana Djo Solo herself. Her Majesty had called for this assembly just half an hour earlier through a Palace-wide transmission that reached out through the commlinks of each person now assembled. She didn't say why, but Phaa Anor didn't need any confirmation as to what the Queen Mother was thinking; she wasn't fooled by Qau Lah's claim that he was the only Yuuzhan Vong in the Palace, in spite of Plagueis's assurances that she would, so she decided she would figure out who was a spy herself.
Because of all this, Phaa Anor could barely suppress the urge to quake in fear where he stood, six minutes into the Queen Mother's investigation. Lord Plagueis managed to intercept him on the way out with the rest of the Palace's inhabitants and told him that neither he nor any of his other agents needed to fear being exposed as Yuuzhan Vong, in spite of their lack of presences in the Force. Phaa Anor held his tongue, only out of fear of death, from outright pointing out before his most dangerous Master that his oh-so brilliant plan of letting Fountain Palace security figure out that there was at least one Yuuzhan Vong in the Palace was what led to this.
Aside from himself, and aside from the late Qau Lah, Phaa Anor had exactly eleven agents carrying out their roles in Plagueis's plans in the Fountain Palace. Given this fact, and considering how much time had passed since Djo Solo's investigation had started, Phaa Anor was surprised to find that she hadn't discovered any of his spies; perhaps Plagueis had something to do with this. Maybe he had nothing to worry, after all, Phaa Anor thought, and that when his Master was confident that they wouldn't be exposed, then he shouldn't be so on the edge. The head Yuuzhan Vong spy of the Fountain Palace felt that he could look over Plagueis's misled plan of leaving Poik and Dr. Cavaz alive long enough to find out that they inhaled spy spores as a mere fluke; after all, no one, not even an immortal and powerful Sith Lord like Darth Plagueis, as wise as he also was, was infallible... but they can still be very close to being so.
The Queen Mother, along with her chamberlain and silent adviser, were coming over here now, Phaa Anor thought, from off to his right, still within the first circle around the Palace. And as they made her round toward him, he, along with the other Palace inhabitants with him from either side, noticed what Djo Solo was doing. For each individual, she spent exactly two seconds staring at them, no doubt probing them with the Force to ascertain that they had presences, before spending three seconds levitating herself up to the heights of the individual before her. She spent another three seconds grabbing at their nose and pinching them before releasing them and floating herself back to the ground.
So the Queen Mother was told how to unveil ooglith masquers, Phaa Anor thought. He hoped that whatever Plagueis did to prevent Djo Solo from figuring out the spies who didn't have a presence in the Force - if she had even come into contact with any of them yet, for none of his own were in his sights - also worked on preventing her from opening up his own ooglith masquers... and by extension, the masquers of his immediate subordinates.
Phaa Anor's thoughts were soon put to the test once the Queen Mother stood before him. She narrowed her eyes upon his profile for two seconds before levitating up to his height and pinching his nose, which would normally unveil his disguise in an instant. But, even to his own surprise, when the ooglith masquer didn't peel back from his body, the Queen Mother released his nose and floated back gently to the ground.
Just as he suppressed the tempting quakes of fear that threatened to spasm his muscles, Phaa Anor suppressed the sigh of relief that threatened to escape him even after the Queen Mother was out of his sight, for it wouldn't do to display such a feeling to all those non-spies around him; it would only let on that Her Majesty's investigative tactics weren't working as well as she thought, even if all it did would raise an eyebrow or two from anyone from either side.
However, Phaa Anor couldn't help but look up in the direction of the Fountain Palace, where Lord Plagueis's suite was located. The Sith Lord himself looked impassively in Phaa Anor's general direction through his cabin's viewport, but the head spy of the Palace still noticed the near-unnoticeable smile, which lasted for less than a second, at his specific direction. Phaa Anor gave his Master a similarly undetectable smile in return.
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The missing seat once occupied by the now-incarcerated former Moff Natasi Daala left the Moff Council Meeting Room's table on Bastion an incomplete circle of seats from which the council itself, along with its Head of State, Vitor Reige, were now presently meeting for an assembly that Reige posted on their datapad notifications as being of top priority. Many of the Moffs assembled looked mildly disgruntled as they stared at their leader with his Chiss aide, Ashik, standing dutifully behind his seated form, but otherwise, they all looked civil enough to receive whatever news Reige had to give them.
"I have called this meeting to order," Reige began, "because I have some most disturbing news from Queen Mother Djo Solo: the Yuuzhan Vong are back."
The level looks aimed at Reige turned into full-blown shock, but yet, they still remained silent to let the Head of State continue. The Moffs' leader then reached into his pocket to take out his datapad, place it upon his desk, and activated it with one push of a button, which brought up a holo of a naked male Yuuzhan Vong corpse being carried out of a luxurious suite by two Hapan women, both dressed in Fountain Palace security uniforms. When the holo ended, Reige turned the datapad off and returned it to his pocket.
"Not long after she told me of this incident in her Palace, the Queen Mother called me again to inform me that while no other Yuuzhan Vong spies were found in her home, this one spy symbolizes the all-too real possibility of a second Vong invasion," Reige told the Moffs stern-faced. "Which is why she told me, near the end of her second report, that both the Hapes Consortium and the Remnant should each spare a single solitary fleet for the Unknown Regions in order to find the living world of Zonama Sekot and destroy it in a coordinated attack, wiping out the majority of the Vong there."
"That still leaves the issue of Vong spies who are out in the greater galaxy, Head of State," Moff Drikl Lecersen pointed out.
Reige nodded. "Something that the Queen Mother and I both agree will be dealt with in time, along with Wedge Antilles and Mirax Horn's New Rebellion. But for now, our main concern is in exterminating the Yuuzhan Vong."