[center]~| Day 3, 02:44 - 03:15 GST |~
~| Lea Rahn, Kaggath |~[/center]

For the first few moments after the troopers approached, Lea was certain that she would be discovered, but either the troopers had severely restricted vision, or Khan’s distraction truly made them blinder than usual. Whatever the reason, Lea hid in the shadows while they ran past, then made herself scarce afterwards. She could not worry about Khan. Either he would get away, or he would be captured. Which did not matter, for she had a task: finding Xid.

Though she could go randomly searching, there was no denying the truth in what she had told Khan earlier: whatever room the Sith used to access surveillance would be optimal for finding out where Xid was taken and by whom. There certainly wasn't any point in staying put.

With that thought in mind, Lea sneakily moved down the hallway, looking for the entrance to wherever that might be. It didn't take long, for the opulent red and black carpet showed the way. The large doorway on the left led into a vast chamber with an even larger carpet covering almost all of the floor. Woven into the center of the carpet was a huge version of the symbol of the Sith Empire. Though she did not favor such opulence, it was nonetheless awe-inspiring how much effort the Empire put into decorating their vessels.

The room was, thankfully, empty so far as people went, but there were numerous objects to be found there. Tables, chairs, computers, droid data ports and more. But it did not take a genius to figure out that there would be no way surveillance could be accessed from such public terminals. She would have to go deeper.

There were two doorways (exempting the one she had entered through). The one opposite her entrance appeared to lead to a corridor. The one on her right led to something else. She chose to go through that one. Creeping along the walls as best as she could, she stepped through the doorway. The corridor was straight, leading to a dead end with four doors on either side. Like down in Nyiss’ quarters, the doors were golden in color, a sharp contrast to the red and black theme elsewhere.

There was a faint feel to the air. One that was oddly comforting, yet also ominous. She had a feeling that at least one of the doors, probably most, led to the personal quarters of the Sith. Taking a gamble, Lea opened the door to the left. It split along the middle, revealing a rather nasty-looking set of serrated spikes. With the speed it opened, she had no doubts at all that she would not want to be caught in the middle of such a door when it closed. Some feeling made her suspect that it could easily cut a person in half when closing.

What met her eyes beyond the door was… nothing. Bare walls, bare floor, a flat ceiling. Not a single object, not even junk. She closed the door again and as she had expected, it slammed shut, cutting away any doubt she had had about its lethality. It appeared to be very well designed, for though it slammed shut, it hardly made any sound as it did. A finely tuned machine. Lea did not doubt that these doors could easily serve as bulkheads in the case of a hull breach. 

Not having any better guess, Lea turned around and opened the door opposite the empty chamber. Unlike the first, this room was not empty. In fact, it contained numerous computers and scores of screens and holographic projectors. Images played out across all of them, showing various parts of the ship. Lea recognized many from the prison at a glance. Exactly what she had sought.

Closing the door behind herself, she walked over to one of the terminals, doing her best to figure out how to use it. Not difficult, it turned out. Though there were numerous feeds from the prison, most of which she made a mental note about, she realized that there were none showing Darth Nyiss’ quarters. Clearly the Darth did not trust that the Sith would not spy on her. A wise decision. 

After several minutes of trial and error, Lea found the surveillance logs. There were holes. Large holes. Someone had wiped many of them from existence. Thankfully, she found the log where Xid was removed from the kolto tank. No Sith was present, only a squad of troopers and a medic.

Lea followed their path through the various logged feeds, seeing that they terminated at the turbolift on the starboard side. Since they did not come out into what the sparse schematics labeled as the deck above the one the one Lea currently was on, logic were dictated that they had gone to Nyiss’ quarters. Either that or some other deck, which would mean that he would be impossible to track down. 

Thus it was blatant that the first place to look would be there. Maybe, if she was lucky, she could find out something about what Nyiss was doing to her. Her body felt off still. Though not as prominent as earlier, the unusual aches were still there. For her peace of mind, she would have to learn more. It was not that she thought Darth Nyiss wanted to harm her, but rather that she liked knowing. She needed to be certain what was happening. 

After erasing the logs of her and Khan’s wandering, she left the surveillance chamber. Sadly she knew of no way to remove her future movements. She crept carefully out, closing the door behind herself and moved to the turbolift down to Nyiss’ quarters. It was not locked, nor was it hard to convince to take her down.

But what to do once she was down there, she had no idea. She knew only a fraction of the layout and she had no idea where Nyiss would be keeping Xid or the experiment records. Or for that matter if they would be accessible to her. She had neither an access code nor understanding of the Sith language.