Dokka Tkarro waved at the chair,"Have a seat, Doctor Panchetta." He said,"This sounds very formal,Captain! AM I being charged with something?" Dokka shook his head. "No, nothing like that. Tall White Lady is here because there is a thought that you might have had your memories altered by someone." Aldus Panchetta laughed,"I see! I thought she might be mad because her custom made orthodics were taking me so long to do. I got interrupted!" He plopped down in the chair and smiled his manic grin and said,"Tampering with memories? SOUNDS dire. Ask your questions!" "What can you tell me about Hermoz, your old research assistant?" Dokka was straight to the point. Aldus scowled,"It's been eighty years, but I think I might seriously harm him if I stumbled across him. I mean we both may have come from Kansasa on Anjou Nambien, the southern continent, and I might have treated him like my little brother... but he's abandoned me and Balaam when he first heard about the Blight. I'd like to know WHO called him with the news and warned him! He was off-planet the next MORNING! Even my contacts couldn't move me off-planet THAT fast!" Dokka said,"Aside from that--what could you tell me of his personality?" Aldus said,"Dependable and very hard working. PUNCTUAL! He was never late for ANYTHING! I wonder if that had something to do with his obsession with steam trains? He loved games of various types, like I do. That's how we gained our 'immortality'. We were hired to get into a hidden place in Shalmiraine and after a week of boredom and striking out, we started playing with what turned out to be the door lock and by random chance, opened it. That's why we never did it again. We don't know what we did to this day... Why in HELL ARE YOU ASKING ABOUT HERMOZ?" "Narchi found him on Earth." Dokka sounded matter of fact, and TWL stared with a frown. Starshine laid her head in TWL's lap, looking at Aldus. ALdus went blank. "Earth? Where we're HEADING, that WAS 78,000 light years away and is now about 10,000 or so light years away? THAT Earth? HOW did he GET THERE?" TWL said,"That's what we're trying to figure out. Captain,He doesn't seem to know either and he genuinely has hostile feelings toward Hermoz. They seem untampered with. He hasn't had any further contact with Hermoz since that afternoon eighty years ago." Dokka sighed."Thank you,Aldus. If you remember anything that might help us, don't hesitate to let us know..." Starshine whispered loudly,"Mommy! Someone is watching him from sickbay! RIGHT NOW!" TWL put a hand on her round head and stared at Aldus. After a moment she rocked back, and then jumped up."Intudrer Alert! We have an unknown contact with Abaddon in the quarantine room! It is NOT Lord Glaen of Erhlu! It's an unknown with vast power and an ancient mind." After a few minutes of tense scrambling, Thistledown reported,"All clear in Sickbay. Neither 518 or I spotted anyone down here. The pressure plates and motion sensors do not report any anomalies here at all." Dokka said,"Stay on alert. There IS someone unknown onboard. Just do not 'shoot first',alright?" They confirmed and signed off. TWL said,"He had a sense of humor too. He said,'A PAIR of problem some children' and mentally rapped me on the head like a father, which broke contact. He DEFINITELY referred to Starshine, but I am not entirely sure he referred to ME as the other child..." Dokka called Thistledown,"Where's your daughter?" After a moment,he said,"She's in Rose's room. She told me she had a troubling dream about 'ABADDON'S FATHER!' I'm going there for details. I'll report back momentarily. I told her to stay there!" Dokka and Aldus looked aghast. Dokka gasped,"We have a loose unknown DRUAGA onboard?" TWL shook her head."No. He never thought like a Druaga at ALL. He's something NEW, we never encountered before!" Dokka sighed,"Great. That does NOT make me feel better!" --To be continued!--