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[suddenlycaptain]

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CAROLYN FRY

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[suddenlycaptain]

You're thinking of the prisoner?

It'd depend on what their goal was.

[cargojet]

To find out the truth. She was the captain's wife, right? Well who else might know that something was up?

[suddenlycaptain]

A captain's wife. Whether she was Gallagher's is technically speculation. [ Though a damn good one. ]

If that was her purpose, I don't think she did a very good job getting it out.

[cargojet]

Technically. And no, I'd say that her--oh. Oh. She murdered someone, they said, in a spectacularly horrible way. Well, what if she didn't? What if one of those monsters did, and she got the blame for it?

[suddenlycaptain]

What, you think manticores were already off the ship? According to the closest thing we have to an expert, they wouldn't have picked her up on the way; it would have been at the very beginning. She'd have murdered someone off-ship.

[cargojet]

Not if she was a stowaway. And don't read too much from it, but we have picked up people on the way. Our being here isn't an accident - couldn't be - it's intentional. Look, it'd be expensive taking people across the galaxy to take over different planets. Hard to sustain all those people, whether in stasis or with food. And if you need a constant stream of soldiers, why not draw them in from other universes. Nobody could possibly miss them, and it'd be safer for everyone else on board too.

That expert of yours wasn't always on the ship, either.