"Commander, I will be available when the Captain returns."  Aeryn says quite firmly.  "He is expected two days from now, if I understood he\im correctly when he offered me use of his quarters."  She shakes her head slightly when attacking the red Man is mentioned.  "I don[t have one.  Truthfully, I want to talk to him.  Why does his master want me?  It's possible he was being overzealous, that what his master - an interesting choice of word - wants me for is rather harmless on the grand scale of things.  Stop grinning at me like that Xen!  I Know the chance of that is small."<br/><br/>"Morgan, I will certainly go with you to the nearer farms, I want to talk to these people and scout out the land."  She looks glumly relfective for a bit. "It seems this Island will be my new home  I'd never heard of this place and from what I've gathered nobody has been known to make it out for quite some time."  She brightens. "I'm needed and I'm free.  That's enough for me."<br/><br/>"Xen, smoke him out where?"  The healer makes a vague motion. "Where do we start, the other side of the island?  How do we get there, fight our way through the gods know what?"  No, the next move is the Hassarf's, not ours."  She looks extemely unhappy when she says "I'm drawing him out.  I'm betting he knows where I am, he might come after me.  But this time I'm not half dead from being washed up on a beach and we know he's out there."