((Sorry bout taking so long to post.  Recently got a part in a play, and rehearsal has been killing my free time.))<br/><br/>Jenten leaned his head to the side.  "Oh, really now...?  You've probably been in this resistance much longer than I have.  Could you tell me, do they have any way of analyzing the stuff?  Studying it, copying it, redistributing it, to give our side an edge against Alhanda's men?"<br/><br/>Marice gave Jenten a sideways glance.  Despite her seemingly simple mentality and obvious blood lust, her one-track mind was able to easily detect animosity in someone's speech- and although Jenten had done a good job of disguising it under the guise of the whole 'better edge in the war' deal, she could tell... he was thinking of using that stuff for his own personal reasons.  Shaking her head, she grins.<br/>"I'm going back outside, where they took the guy with all the needles.  Maybe there's some actual<span style="font-style: italic">fun</span>still going on outside instead of all this talking."<br/><br/>------------------------------------------------------------<br/><br/>Karogen sighed.  "I am... probably -was-, now... the leader of a peace movement group, not a group of combatants.  I know how to lead sit-ins and handle a negotiation or two... I gave up hostility along with my teenage years..."<br/><br/>Karogen frowns, hearing Baz's words, and suddenly gets a<span style="font-style: italic">very</span>bad feeling.<br/>"Extremist groups in Blotar...?  Of humans...?"<br/><br/>------------------------------------------------------------<br/><br/>Sherra gives an unseen sneer at the humans as they pass by... but holds her fire.<br/>Kitten nods, speaking quietly.<br/>"Right now, our goal is survival, and that would mean killing only when it gave a definite plus to thier chances of surviving.  If we had shot, the sound of gunfire in the distance could have attracted the wrong type of attention.  We would have had to hide the bodies to prevent anyone from tracking us by a trail of corpses... and by the time we hid the bodies, anyone who came to investigate the gunfire may have seen us."