[h2]Tanngrisnir[/h2]

The girl paused when she heard about the theoretically kidnapped passenger. There were quite a few reasons that you [i]might[/i] want to keep a secret prisoner in the civilian quarters, starting with the fact that it could get them to trust you some more if they were still being treated well. That would be useful for getting them to hand over sensitive information that you needed. Alternatively, it would generally not be your first place to look and would be more likely to have enough people to delay the search long enough to reinforce, as in this scenario.

Neither of these are what the former Wolf-King said, instead going for, "What would your first thought be if someone formally loyal showed up on an enemy ship?" [i]Though a turncoat should be kept as a prisoner anyway. Traitors were the worst kind of scum.[/i]