Star Trek Hunter
Episode 12: Prisoner in the Ice Castle
Scene 7: Shran's Aviary
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Shran's Aviary
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Five andorians, two humans and a bolian sat in the middle of an apparently abandoned warehouse somewhere north of Laikan. All of them were tied to their chairs. All but the bolian and one of the humans, Johnny Canada, were gagged. The andorians' antennae were bound, preventing movement, which was causing them to become disoriented and nauseous. None of them were blindfolded.

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Investigator Lynhart Shran dragged a chair and an Andorian Imperial Guard military issue sniper's phaser rifle into the center of the group. He laid the rifle in the chair, then walked around the perimeter of the group, removing gags and allowing them to fall around the necks of those who had been gagged when he had entered the room.

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"Now I have a collection of song birds, but you are only allowed to sing when I tell you. Abuse this privilege and the gag goes back into your mouth." Shran stepped into the middle of the circle, picked up the rifle, straddled the chair. "I am Lynhart Shran of the Andorian Imperial Guard, Eliminator First Class. And I have orders naming each of you. Which means all of you are, as of this moment, dead. But I will not kill you if I do not need to. You can walk out of this building alive under one condition, my little songbirds: Sing."

Shran pulled up the image of a pair of young andorian boys on a viewer, walked over to Shrib. Showed it to him. "House th'Ravonet."

Shrib's antennae bristled when he was shown the image on the viewer. Anger, fear and desperation competed for dominance on his face. But he did not hesitate to respond. "Everyone thinks House Shav kidnapped Sin th'Ravonet - the preferred heir and presumptive emperor. I don't think they did. House Shav has military muscle, but they're navigating with a broken antenna. They might be able to take th'Ravonet in a straight up military raid, but they don't have the covert resources to kidnap the heir right out of Castle th'Ravon."

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Investigator Shran looked about the room, gauging the reactions of his other prisoners, then nodded, appeared satisfied. He unbound Shrib's antennae. Shrib was visibly relieved. He took a deep breath, closed his eyes and lowered his head, started to seriously shake.

Shran pulled up an official looking document in andorian script on his viewer. He walked over to the older bolian woman - showed it to her. She was already shaking.

"I'm already terrified, sir. You didn't need to show me that."

"House zh'Ithirith," Shran said…

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