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throat and grimaced.
    “Another one? What’s going on?”
    “We have a defrosted Viking running around the ship. What else do you need to know?” Brown snapped. “What happened, Ross?”
    “We’re not sure.” The man who’d brought the new patient in paused at the door. “We made a sweep of storage bay one. The captain and I were at the door ready to move out when we realized Moshe wasn’t with us. I retraced our path and found him like this.” Ross shook his head. “I have to get back. The captain’s waiting for me.”
    The doctor looked up from his examination. “Tell the captain Moshe’s been knocked unconscious with a blow to the side of the head. He’ll have a slight concussion, but otherwise he’ll be fine. In fact, he’s coming around now.”
    As Ross left, Brown moved over to stand by the gurney. “Moshe? What happened?”
    His much younger colleague groaned as the doctor gave him a shot in the arm. “Jeez, that scared the fuck out of me.”
    “What did?” Brown asked with an edge to his voice.
    “We scanned the storage bay, checked it out and found nothing, and then I got this sense, this kind of tickling sensation in the back of my neck, you know? So I had to turn around and go back. And shit , this huge dude was just suddenly there and that was the last thing I remember.”
    “Where’s your weapon?”
    Moshe sighed. “Shit, I don’t know. I certainly didn’t get to use it. He was too damned fast.”
    “Nice attitude for a security operative, Moshe,” Brown muttered.
    “You wouldn’t have done any better. One moment there was nothing except this grey fog and then suddenly that guy was right in my face .” He shuddered. “Did I mention that he was fucking huge ?”
    “So he’s a magical Viking, is he?”
    “Maybe. He certainly knows how to hide his tracks.”
    Despite Brown’s sarcastic tone, Frey considered Ross’s words very carefully. The Viking was telepathic and his ability to survive in ice for thousands of years hinted at other powers… As a Pavlovan, she knew her Gods were magical and often did extraordinary things. She’d also noticed that those from Earth didn’t seem to have much faith in anything at all.
    Both Captain Travis and Brown were from Earth. Moshe was half-Pavlovan which might explain why he’d had to go and check out that feeling.
    “If the Viking has acquired one of our weapons, Brown, it might cause a problem if he inadvertently sets it off.” Frey said as calmly as she could. “Perhaps you should inform the captain.”
    “I’ll do that as soon as I’ve returned you to your quarters.”
    Frey slid off the gurney and re-buttoned her uniform. “You should just let me tell him and how I intend to deal with the problem.”
    “Nice try, Tecky, but you’re not going near the captain, or that Viking until I’m given the okay.”
    Freya held his gaze. “Then you won’t catch him, and more of our crew will be injured. Is that what you want?”
    “And you think you can save the day?”
    “Yes.”
    His smile was somewhere between kind and dismissive. “Let’s get you safely back to your quarters, shall we?”
    Frey let out her breath and stomped down the path to the crew quarters, glad that she had her own cabin to fret and fume in alone. Brown opened the door and ushered her inside.
    “Have a good evening, Tecky.”
    She let him do his thing, heard him tapping away at the security panel changing the access codes so that she couldn’t leave without setting off an alert. He had no idea that as a Pavlovan, she had the telepathic ability to manipulate electrical signals, get out of that door in less than a second, and reset the alarms to make it look as if she’d never left.
    But first, she needed to check her emergency supplies from FREN, form a plan and make sure she knew where her Viking was hiding. This time she would come prepared for a fight.
    It was warm down in the innards of whatever magical flying boat Einarr was currently on. He’d