Move 2.4b Recap

Seyli thanks Sasha for remembering they prefer to avoid alcohol while on duty, then blurts, "I don't like any of this, you all know that. I don't trust him farther than I can throw him. I know I'm not the smartest person on this ship, but I am...was...Kel, and think I've earned my fear of him." Sasha nods at Seyli; Reshad murmurs, "I want to discuss this."

Sasha presents her agenda for the team: "We are going to toast to a successful enterprise, because we have achieved our objective smoothly, and learned even more than we had hoped, due to your coordinated action. Next we are going to discuss the strategic recommendations we will make to Ashari, regarding our guest. In particular, will we tell him about the moths, or will we wait until we can consult with them? Finally, we will address Seyli's specific question, about the security restrictions to place on Jedao, once our strategic plan is clear." She toasts, "So. To a successful enterprise!" knocking the shot of arak back and letting the glass clink on the table. She then asks the team members "who spoke directly to Jedao" about their "assessment" of the conversation.

Ione says that though she "did very little speaking," she was able to sense many of Jedao's emotions: "He wasn't throwing strong, viscerally negative feelings to hurt me or put me off my game. He didn't know what I was sensing, though he may have picked up on something at this point. But, I mean, I can tell when people are faking disruptive emotions in order to put me on the wrong path or get me out of a room and this wasn't that." She expands, "I wasn't probing because I need skin-to-skin contact for that, so what I've got is choppy, but he mentioned being blackmailed, and that person sounds like a much bigger concern than Jedao himself. I mean, verbally we picked up on that but also emotionally, I thought I was going to be sick for a second, without skin contact." She believes Jedao "hopes that we are the answer to an impossible problem, and maybe we are. Which means he'll be much more inclined to work with us than against us, especially if ... I caught almost a fear of something that might happen, not something that had happened. So my educated guess is if we can help him out of a path he might otherwise be stuck taking, he'll help us as well."