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Chapter 2

Ryer confronted Tolan after the foreigners had been properly lodged.

"What did you mean, I'm not part of your family?" she asked.

Tolan grinned evily. "You arrived on Aorthia little over a year ago. You escaped the Wraiths during their culling. You wished to fight them, but I knew if you did, their wrath would descend on us. I convinced father to have the old seer erase all of your memory. Since then Aopa has taught you and likes you better than me. I know he wanted to name you as heir. I detest you."

Ryer was shocked. She had always been told that she had been in an accident. That was how she lost her sight and memory.

"Where did I come from, then?" she inquired.

Tolan took great pleasure in telling Ryer, "I don't know. You will remember everything only if you lay eyes on the world you came from."

"How did the meeting go? Are you trading with the foreigners?" asked Ryer, still mulling over what she had just learned.

"They are leaving in the morning," he spat on the ground. "They said that my demands were too much."

Ryer wasn't surprised. Tolan had always been greedy.

Suddenly, Ryer had an idea. "I'm going with them," she told Tolan.

Tolan simply replied, "Good riddance."

Samantha Carter woke up to a sunny morning. As she rolled over, she started. Ryer was sitting in a corner watching her.

"Finally," said Ryer. "I've been waiting since sunrise to tell you something."

"Yes?" inquired Carter, puzzled.

"Tolan plans on keeping you hostage to get weapons."

Carter bolted upright. "Why are you telling me this?" she asked, suspiciously.

"Because I want to go with you," she replied.

"No," was Carter's instantaneous reply.

Ryer smiled, "Then I won't help you leave without getting captured."

"I'll talk it over with Daniel, Jack, and Teal'c," she said, though she had no thought of bringing the blind girl.

Carter entered the men's tent, to find them just waking. Ryer followed swiftly behind her. Sam then relayed what Ryer had told her.

"Why do you wish to come with us?" asked Daniel, curious.

Ryer told them everything Tolan had told her. "I wish to travel with you to other planets to see if I can find my home planet," Ryer finished.

"I have two questions," said Daniel. "Why do you trust us, and how do you know Tolan's plans?"

"I trust you, because I can read minds. Well, that is not entirely true. I can read some minds. I am unable to read Teal'c and Jack's minds, but Carter's, Daniel's, and Tolan's are completely open to me."

"How do we know we can trust you?" asked Jack.

"You don't," replied Ryer, smiling.

Ryer left as the SG-1 team discussed the proposition.

"I do not think we should bring her," was Teal'c's vote.

The others agreed, and the team left.

Ryer grinned ruefully. The team had turned down her offer, and now they were locked in the Pit. It would be harder, but she could pull it off. Several moments later she was in the Pit

"Do you believe me now?" asked Ryer a little irritably. "It will be a little harder to get you out now."

The team exchanged glances and Jack said, "Get us out of this mess, and we will take you to Stargate Command. I can't promise you anything else."

"Good enough for me," Ryer nodded her assent. "No matter what I do or say, just don't make a sound."

SG-1 agreed and Ryer pulled a loop of keys off a hook. After finding the right one, the door swung open. She beckoned for the SG team to come out. At the entrance they filed past two guards. Ryer said hello to them, and they smiled at her. They seemed to not see the SG team.

As they went down a small hill, and out of site, Ryer let out her breath and said, "That was the easy part."

"How did you do that?" asked Daniel.

"I blocked you out of their minds. You're lucky I could penetrate both. I fear the guards at the Japa-Ai may not be so easily fooled," Ryer replied.