Fortunately for Kyle's secret identity, Nita was the trusting sort, and he'd have to slip more than that for her to get suspicious.
"Okay, storytime." She set her glass beside his. "After the first batch of us washed up there was a Welcome Festival. Total Mardi Gras, right? Or at least as much like that as this crew can manage. It rotated from sector to sector, and on the last day there was a huge parade. Everybody loves foreigners!
"Except not. Right at the height of festivities, one of the kedan gangs grabbed Favrielle" Nita jerked her thumb at one of the connecting walls to indicate Favrielle's suite "and Yue, who's not here anymore, and were going to murder them onstage as a demonstration. The police commander of the kedan got there first and killed the bad guys on the platform--and then there was city-wide rioting. They deputized foreigners to keep the place from entirely boiling over, and it turns out the kedan are stronger and tougher than normal humans.
"That wasn't the only incident, but it's the one that tipped us all off to the fact that there's something screwy going on here. And now the palace is just kind of acting like nothing happened." Nita threw her hands up in disgust.
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"Okay, storytime." She set her glass beside his. "After the first batch of us washed up there was a Welcome Festival. Total Mardi Gras, right? Or at least as much like that as this crew can manage. It rotated from sector to sector, and on the last day there was a huge parade. Everybody loves foreigners!
"Except not. Right at the height of festivities, one of the kedan gangs grabbed Favrielle" Nita jerked her thumb at one of the connecting walls to indicate Favrielle's suite "and Yue, who's not here anymore, and were going to murder them onstage as a demonstration. The police commander of the kedan got there first and killed the bad guys on the platform--and then there was city-wide rioting. They deputized foreigners to keep the place from entirely boiling over, and it turns out the kedan are stronger and tougher than normal humans.
"That wasn't the only incident, but it's the one that tipped us all off to the fact that there's something screwy going on here. And now the palace is just kind of acting like nothing happened." Nita threw her hands up in disgust.