((OOC:  All right, Saiai.  Have a good three days!))<br/><br/>Halvorson didn't wait for Baz or Sara to confirm his suspicions.  He saw the others moving and said to Sara, "Bring that along.  My brigade commander will want to hear it."  He addressed the room.  "Everyone pile onto the truck!"  He looked at Sara.  "You said you had a gun we could mount on it?  If you do, please get it."<br/><br/>He walked over to Heretic.  "You know how to drive better than most of my men, I'd guess," he said.  "Willing to take the wheel?"<br/><br/>All the humans, including Janus and O'Toole made their way to the truck and climbed aboard.  They kept a lookout for anything coming as they awaited the rest.<br/><br/>-----<br/><br/>Karogen's impudence pushed Lady Alhanda over the edge.  She bared a full set of claws on one hand and stabbed them into his back, not intending to injure him as much as to cause severe pain.  The claws were only an inch long each, and were positioned in strategic nerve clusters to maximize their effect.<br/><br/>"Oh, I 'asked' him," she said in reply to his question, her coy demeanor still barely slapped on, stretched thin with anger.  "He went insane resisting me."  She pulled the claws from his back and rose.  "We won't get much out of him now," she announced to her guards.  "Lock him up with his... compatriot.  When he is on the brink of death from dehydration, bring him back to me."  She leaned close to Karogen.  "I hope you enjoyed your meal, Karogen.  It was your last."<br/><br/>The guards hefted Karogen off the ground and bodily dragged him from the room, out into the elevator, and back down to the dungeon.  Within moments, he was standing before the cell he had been taken from.  The door was swung open.  Inside, the haggard old man squinted out at Karogen.<br/><br/>"You didn't die!  You fool!" he cried.  The guards shoved Karogen down against the wall and chained him to it.  Then they left him, the metal door swinging shut behind them with an ominous clang.<br/><br/>"Well," came the old man's voice.  "You're gonna die now.  I guess it's all good, then."