"Crais?"
Aeryn walked into Command and was surprised to see that nobody was there.
"Pilot?" she asked. "Where is Captain Crais?"
It took a while for Pilot responded.
"Crais has returned to Talyn." Pilot answered slowly.
"He requests your presence there."

Aeryn bowed her head, thinking about Crais's request.

"You shouldn't trust him." Jothee said suddenly, as he appeared in the doorway.
"What?" Aeryn said to him.
"You shouldn't trust Crais." he repeated to her.
Aeryn looked at her with her cold eyes.
"You can't trust Crais." Jothee said firm.
"You sound like Crichton." Aeryn said to him.
She didn't even notice it at first.
This was the first time she mentioned Crichton´s name, since his death.
As new tears started to grow in her eyes, Jothee bowed his head.
"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to..."
"I know Jothee." Aeryn said.
"I didn't want to upset you." Jothee went on, "I just wanted to help."
"I don't need help, Jothee." Aeryn said. "And I do not need your protection."
She walked out, heading for the hangar-bay.

As Aeryn was about to board a Transport-Pod, on the planet below her Chiana was left alone with D'Argo as Rygel went out to search for Grunchlik.
Both of them sat on opposite ends of the table, desperately avoiding eye-contact with each other.
But Chiana hated these uncomfortable silences. Especially concerning her ex-lover.
"Do you hate me?" she asked the Luxan.
D'Argo's eyes slowly drifted towards her.
Again he was reminded of something he was desperately trying to forget.
"I need to know." Chiana asked again. "Do you hate me? Because I don't want you to hate me..."
"I don't hate you." D'Argo interrupted as he looked kindly but painful in her beautiful eyes.
Those were the most kindest and relieving words Chiana has ever heard in her life.
She immediately felt a lot better.
"...but I will never love you..." D'Argo added sadly, with cold words.
"Never again."
Chiana began to cry, but she wiped them away swiftly, knowing that this was her punishment, for the crime she committed: breaking D'Argo's heart.
"I am willing to put my life in your hands." D'Argo finally said.
"But not my heart."

Rygel suddenly zoomed into the room on his levitating throne, breaking the tension in the room as he entered.
"I have just had a conversation with that horrible creature, Grunchlik..." he said loudly to them.
"And?" D'Argo asked.
"We will pay 17.000 crendars for Moya's treatment." Rygel said.
"You were supposed to haggle, Rygel!" Chiana shouted at him.
"That is an awful large amount of money!"
Rygel just smiled at her as he waved her words away.
"I have managed to get something extra for that money."
"Like what?" Chiana asked.
"A ship." Rygel answered luxuriously.
D'Argo and Chiana just stared at him.
"Why buy another ship, Rygel?" Chiana said. "Are you planning on leaving Moya?"
"Perhaps I am." Rygel said.
"With Crichton dead," he explained. "we will no longer be hunted throughout the universe."
"But we are still fugitives!" D'Argo said.
"The Peacekeepers will forget about us!" Rygel said. "They don't care about a bunch of escaped prisoners! The only thing that kept us from returning to our homeworlds, was Scorpius. Don't try and contradict me!
If it weren't for Crichton, the Peacekeepers would've given up on us a long time ago!
Crichton was the only reason why we were still hunted down like animals, and now he's dead! Scorpius won't hunt us anymore! We are free men at last! Crichton should've died many years ago, that way we all would have been better off!"
"DON'T SAY THAT!" Chiana shouted to Rygel as he said those words.
Rygel looked at the ground.
"Sorry, you're right. I shouldn't have said that. And certainly not out loud."
"Perhaps you are right." D'Argo suddenly said to Rygel, to Chiana's surprise.
"We are no longer being hunted. I could go back to the Luxan homeworld, find Macton..."
"I'm not leaving Moya!" Chiana said.
"That's easy for you to say!" Rygel said. "Your homeworld wants you dead! You would gladly stay on Moya, because you have nowhere else to go!"
"So you intend to leave Moya as soon as she's healed?" Chiana said to them. "You intend to abandon her and Pilot after all these years?"
"We are not abandoning her," Rygel cunningly said to Chiana. "Yóu are staying, aren't you?"
Chiana didn't know what to say.
"So you really want to leave Moya?" Chiana said to D'Argo. "Do you really have no other reason to stay?"
D'Argo looked her straight in the eyes as he said it.
"There's nothing for me on Moya anymore."
"Only death." Rygel added.

Aeryn docked her Transport-Pod in Talyn's docking-bay.
Quickly she left the hangar and walked past the dark red walls of Talyn towards his Command Deck, where Crais was waiting for her.
She noticed how large Talyn had become over the years.
Aeryn still remembered when he was still a baby, with nothing more then a few chambers and his Command Deck.
Now Talyn has a docking-bay, sleeping-quarters for passengers, a common room, and hallways that stretched out for miles, it seemed.
Talyn's doors opened automatically as she approached them.
Aeryn knew she was being expected.

"Thank you for coming, Aeryn." Crais said to her, welcoming her aboard Talyn again.
"Talyn really appreciates your help."
"But I haven't done anything yet." she said.
"Coming here at our request shows that you have good intentions. That you love him."
Aeryn didn't notice how Crais's eyes began to glow as he stopped talking.
"It's hard nót to love something as beautiful as Talyn."
Some lights flickered and a short and low sound was heard.
"Talyn thanks you for saying that." Crais said, interpreting the sounds of Talyn to Aeryn.
"I myself feel that only Peacekeepers can truly understand Talyn's beauty."
Crais smiled.
"Talyn is a Leviathan, a peaceful and caring creature, harnessed with Sebacean technology and weapons. This makes him truly a Peacekeeper."
Crais wanted to say more, but his eyes revealed that something was happening.
"What is that Talyn?" he said with a loud voice. "A transmission? Where is it coming from? Let's hear it!"

A rumbling voice was suddenly heard on Talyn's Command Deck.
Aeryn's heart jumped as she recognised who it was.
"The signal is Scarran." Crais said. "And it's coming from the planet's surface!"