Most people who knew her might be surprised to realize Kara felt the occasional pang of guilt now and then—it was a weakness, not something that could ever be allowed to get in the way of her duty to the Empire. Seeing this girl blubbering did make the young agent feel some regret. Kara knew a real panic attack from a fake one, and it seemed very likely this soldier had been on the<em>Roger Young</em>and had a bad time of it.<br/><br/>“Take your time, dear,” Kara said with an impatient sigh. Then something caught her eye that made her forget about the unhinged grunt. One of the soldiers watching the scene unfold looked<em>very</em>nervous for brief moment, before quickly hiding his emotions.<em>Oh, I must have been on to something...</em>This was why Kara loved working the cannon fodder infantry for the Propaganda Department—if she were working in the Fleet, she would have do her searches in an official manner and never get that one instant of unguarded terror when she was recognized.<br/><br/>The brunette turned back to the duffel she had been searching and now really tore into it without her previous subtly—no point now, everyone was watching her and therefore her search was over for today. Kara laughed when she found the hidden contraband book, holding it up and waving it sarcastically at the treasonous young man. The soldier turned tail and sprinted out of a galley, causing Kara laugh so hard she could hardly breathe. Where did the idiot think he was going to hide? After taking a second to catch her breath, she used her comm to contact ship’s security so that they would detain the fugitive.<br/><br/>She then used her comm again and left a message for Lieutenant Warren. “Lieutenant, this is Citizen Reinfeldt. I’m afraid one of yours, Private Jeffrey Key, is being detained for political contraband.” Kara paused for the barest moment, considering the book in her hand—<em>Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung.</em>Dr. Tanaka was also an anti-capitalist, was she involved? There were a lot of flavors of treason, and Kara had researched them thoroughly. Kara knew Tanaka was one of those annoying hippy-anarchist types who spit in the face of all authority, and thought everyone would come together voluntarily against the Empire in some big love-in. Marxists like Key, on the other hand, were quite a bit more open-minded when it came to using violence to mold society in their image. There was a lot of bad blood between those two groups, therefore Tanaka would never recommended this book. “It appears to be an isolated incident. You’ll receive a more detailed report shortly. If Key is important to the function of your platoon in some way, you can feel free to fill out the PES Fast Track Form—in that case, you can have him back after I make sure he’s properly broken.”<br/><br/>Once he was officially PES, if Key was found with another book like this, he would summarily executed. In Kara’s opinion, this sort of “two strikes and you’re out” policy was over-generous—but it was not agent’s place to question how magnanimous the Empire might choose to be toward monsters like Key or Tanaka. Kara finally turned back to the mystery transfer, to see if she was ready to produce her papers or otherwise explain herself.