Return: Chapter 14
"You wanted to see me, My Lord?" Darth Wyyrlok asked Krayt as he entered the latter's chamber within his capital ship of the One Sith fleet.
"Yes, Lord Wyyrlok, come here and prostrate yourself before me," Krayt, who was seated in his throne, said.
Wyyrlok nodded and approached his human Master, genuflecting at his feet.
"In spite of our efforts to cloak our unified presence against Zonama Sekot, there was a tear, if you will, in that cloak recently," Krayt explained, "that allowed Sekot to sense us. Even though we have mended it, I have sensed that it has sensed that we are coming for it. And when we arrive, it will be ready and prepared to face us, even if it is somewhat haphazardly."
"Well, then, what do you recommend we do, My Lord?" Wyyrlok inquired.
"We stop our travel," Krayt said.
Wyyrlok looked at his Master in shock. "I beg your pardon, My Lord?"
"I doubt that the tear in our cloak was an accident, Lord Wyyrlok," Krayt said. "When I sensed Sekot sense us through that tear, I also simultaneously managed to recognize that there was an order in what had occurred, as if it were deliberate. I do believe, Wyyrlok, that we have a spy in our midst. A Jedi spy, no less. We cannot return to Korriban, for there could be an army of Jedi there waiting for us if my theory of at least one Jedi spy is correct; such a spy would be able to inform his or her superiors, like Luke Skywalker, about where we are, if that spy doesn't already know where we are. And we cannot continue forward because, like I said, we would be facing a living planet that, at best, would be ready to confront us. So the best we could do is stop and launch a secret investigation as to who this spy could be."
"A secret investigation?" Wyyrlok asked.
"If we make the investigation public, the Jedi will be able to easily elude us," Krayt said. "We need to make sure that he or she, or even they, will not notice what we are planning."
"Then what am I supposed to tell the rest of the fleet?" Wyyrlok asked.
Krayt looked at Wyyrlok with a look of annoyance. "Do you really think the loyalty of the One Sith's members were to be dangerously diluted, Lord Wyyrlok, if I were not to give an answer? I'm sure they would understand that it will be for some reason."
"But wouldn't the Jedi spy be suspicious?" Wyyrlok asked.
"That is the best we can hope for in this situation, Wyyrlok," Krayt said. "Hopefully, we can eliminate the mole, or moles, in this organization before it is too late."
"But what about Sekot?" Wyyrlok asked. "Even with our staling of this travel, it still knows about us, and that we are still coming for it."
"Ah, yes, Sekot, that is something I will need to contemplate," Krayt said. "Thank you for bringing that up, Lord Wyyrlok. Now, onto the investigation. Here will be the members that I know we can trust to enact this mission..."
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Seha Dorvald, Jedi spy of the One Sith now in the quarters of the One Sith's capital ship, listened carefully to the conversation unfold between Darths Krayt and Wyyrlok in the former's throne room. She had managed to sneak a small radio listener beneath Krayt's throne during her cleaning of the room as part of the maintenance team prior to the launch of the fleet for Zonama Sekot.
And during her listening of the exchange, she relayed the entire conversation in a private, encrypted transmission to a Jedi receiving the information on Shedu Maad. When the conversation between Krayt and Wyyrlok was over, and Wyyrlok had left the room and Krayt was left to sit and contemplate on his throne, Seha removed her headset from the exchange and took out her portable comm. She then felt through the Force that the entire One Sith fleet dropped out of hyperspace, meaning that the investigation for her was on.
"Doran, come in, this is Seha, over," she said after activating her comm.
"I'm reading you loud and clear, Seha," Doran Sarkin-Tainer's voice came on the other end. "What's up?"
"Darth Krayt knows that there's at least one spy here, and I already recorded all the names of the members who'll be part of the private investigation party," Seha explained. "We already dropped out of hyperspace, and I know they probably already launched the investigation by now. What do I do?"
"Don't panic," Doran said. "Just get off the line and delete all the info you acquired. We already got all we need here on Shedu Maad. But do it as quickly as possible. Tainer out."
With that, after Doran cut the transmission, Seha went to work to do all that her fellow Jedi just told her to accomplish.
Hopefully, she won't get caught. Maybe she could still be of some use to the Jedi Order after this, and not have her cadaver end up as a message to the Order instead.