<b>Cabin 42D<br/>
Aboard the <i>Polaris Star</i><br/>
Tingel Arm<br/>
</b><br/>The<i>Polaris Star</i>was a luxury cruise liner, considered top of the line of the spacefaring passenger and luxury starliners. A spacegoing resort would be an apt description of her. And she was currently traveling the starlanes of the Tingel Arm, known as the Galaxy's 'fun arm' due to the multiple resorts in that area.<br/><br/>All manner of amenities were aboard the<i>Polaris Star </i>ranging from multiple swimming pools, hip clubs, plenty of shopping, to exquisite restaurants of all varieties. None of which were being enjoyed by one of the occupants of Cabin 42D,<br/><br/>Kenny Cormick, 19, slim bodied from four years on the swim team of his old high school, with dirty blond hair and hazel eyes worked for<i>Stellar News</i>as a photographer. He was working with Lorelei Whitmore, a reporter at the same paper. He and Lorelei were aboard the<i>Polaris Star</i>to cover the fashion show that was taking place for a week aboard her. On the side he and Lorelei were after a really hot story, one of an artifact smuggling ring operating aboard the Polaris Star.<br/><br/>And it was due to that reason that the youth, clad in those short and tight blue swim trunks, lay face down on the bed of his cabin. Not of his own accord of course. Indeed not. He lay face down, hands tied behind his back, arranged palm to palm, with a length of rope wrapped around his wrists three times horizontally and twice vertically with knots tied out of the reach of questing fingers. His ankles were similarly bound and his hands roped to his feet. The gag finished out the picture, consisting of a wadded up piece of cloth stuffed in his mouth, held inside by a folded band of white linen tied over his lips and double knotted behind his head.<br/><br/>The authors of his bondage were a young human female with a blonde pixie haircut, a purple-skinned and three-eyed Chodari holding a satchel crammed with enough rope, cloth, tape, and other materials to bind and gag Kenny multiple times over, and a pair of Troads, one clad in yellow overalls and the other in blue overalls.<br/><br/>"We've got you cornered," Yellow said.<br/><br/>"Cornered we got you." Blue echoed.<br/><br/>"Shh," the human female said, as she held up Kenny's phone, "We've got a reporter to snag."<br/><br/>"MMMPH!! MMMPH!!" Kenny called out helplessly from behind the gag as the human female typed a text on his phone:<br/><br/><blockquote class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch" data-attributes="" data-quote="" data-source="">
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			Lorelei, I've found a lead. Meet me back at the cabin?
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</blockquote><br/>Kenny watched, helplessly, as the two Troads climbed the wall, hiding just above the doorframe of the cabin's entrance, the Chodari hid deeper in the living room in a recessed alcove and the human female waited behind his bedroom door, after closing it...