Yavek is worried. He can feel his tenuous grasp on the ship's crew being tugged away. The Punishment was a disaster, and Stacy's refusal to go through with it made him and the other Daligig look stupid and weak. The Punishment was supposed to terrorize the population into falling into line, but instead it only added fuel to the fire.

They could go through with a full lockdown, putting the crew in their place by force, but they might take casualties in turn. They could put Warden back in place and try to suppress Stacy entirely, but again, the crew could attack.

Perhaps it would be better if the threat to the crew came from within the crew themselves.

Yavek approaches Zetta's fortress, without his body guards but certainly not unarmed.

Despite the uproar that had taken place only a day earlier, it was all quiet at the Susono Inn. Well... mostly quiet, anyway. It was home to some of the most stubborn crew members on the ship, almost all of whom had gotten involved in the brawl with the Kessek.

Allenby's arm had been broken. Simon had taken a hard one directly to the ribs. Zouichi would probably take a week to get back to real fighting form.

And Howard... well, it would probably take Howard a while to recover from what had happened.

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