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outside this room, okay?”
    “Yes, sir.”
    Dr. Frith consulted his notes. “We extracted DNA, blood, and did all the other necessary tests on our guest and the results were… unexpected. There were also other abnormalities. Whoever was holding him on that Etruscan moon interfered with his ability to shield and tampered with his nervous system. That collar and the metal shackles he wore all contained probes that constantly monitored his every physical and telepathic response.”
    “He said they were experimenting on him and enjoyed causing him pain,” Mya said. “He also said that he was visually monitored day and night.”
    “We should be able to help him restore his shields and improve his nervous system, but it will take time.” Dr. Frith hesitated. “More worrying is his loss of memory and his sense of alienation from his own people.”
    Mya shifted in her seat. “Don’t you think he has a perfect right to be angry about being abandoned like that? I still can’t believe it happened to him. If he was military, how come no one went back for him?”
    “Why do you assume he was military?”
    “Why else would he be in space?” Mya glanced at Major Esca and then at the doctor. “’What am I missing?”
    “We think,” Dr. Firth said carefully. “That Rekk’s bloodline and telepathic abilities come from the Pavan dynasty.”
    “One of the families that originally settled this planet? Didn’t they all die out centuries ago?” Mya desperately tried to remember her history. “That doesn’t make sense.”
    “We also think he’s about one hundred and twenty-five years old.”
    “Wow.” Mya just about remembered how to shut her mouth. “That’s not possible.”
    “The Oracle is older, and the last surviving member of the Pavan dynasty died at almost two hundred years.”
    “How do you know Rekk is Pavan?”
    “Because some of his ancestors left their blood samples in our memory banks, and we also have some more distant relatives like our own Senator Ash who share some similar genetic traits.”
    “So Rekk is kind of an anomaly. Have you told him?”
    “No. In our opinion, he isn’t ready to receive the information yet. We are currently focusing on detaching him from the collar and cuffs and boosting his immune system to cope with the current climate.”
    Mya tensed. “Did he agree to you doing those things to him? The last time I saw him, he was rather anti-scientist.”
    For the first time Dr. Frith looked slightly uncomfortable. “He was… resistant to any interventions.”
    Mya held her breath. “You put him under, didn’t you? I wondered what was going on today. I thought that maybe he’d broken the connection after all, but it hasn’t gone away completely.” She shook her head. “He’s going to freak out when he comes around. Don’t you think you might have waited until he was more stable to start messing with him again?”
    Major Esca shook his head. “We needed to get the Etruscan probes out of his system as fast as possible. We cannot have their spy systems tracing him here.”
    “I should imagine the Etruscan government knows exactly where he is already.”
    “No, that’s the weird thing, Jong. We have heard nothing official about his loss at all.”
    Mya frowned. “The guard I met there said we were off the grid and that no one would know what had happened to me. The whole place was shielded from telepathic thoughts. It was only because Lieutenant Roberts works on a different frequency that I was able to get through to him.” Mya leapt to her feet and started pacing. “Maybe the Etruscan government doesn’t know what was going on in there, either.”
    “You might be right, but we still had to get rid of those probes. It might help restart his memory as well.” Major Esca glanced at Dr. Firth. “We were intending to ask you to remain as Rekk’s primary contact, but I gather from what Dr. Lyn is telling us that this might be a problem?”
    For a second Mya hesitated.