Peeling off from StarRanger's 'My Comments on Roses in Springtime....' thread:

>Right now, of course, the two main contenders are Kate and Dev. Of
>the two, Kate really is the lead for many reasons, not the least of
>which comes down to that she used the Shadow aspects of K-ryu
>training. Of course, we could all be being led down the primrose path
>on that one. Unless and until Lisa is revealed as a card carrying
>Teep, there is no reason why she should possibly be able to finger
>Devlin. Remember that she is off screen for "Courtship", and while at
>school Dev is so deep into his 'role' that whatever personality he may
>have originally possesed is totally subsumed. Ergo, to 'correctly'
>finger the blip she'd either have to be a Teep herself or have been in
>contact with Amanda's younger sister. To assume the former requires
>facts never before seen; the latter is even more improbable. Amanda's
>younger sister would have no way of knowing that Lisa is the one
>person best placed of the entire student body to attack the
>protagonists.

But, in rereading tonight, there is this to consider:

        "The Gamilon's looking even more militant than usual tonight,"
mused Carol Alverson cattily as she and her tuxedoed ornament sipped
punch alongside Liza Broadbank and the desperately dull young man her
father had sent down from New Avalon.
        Liza nodded, still distracted by the verbal beating she'd
taken from Dorothy Wayneright.
        "I wonder what happened to her face," Carol went on
thoughtfully.
        "Family politics, most likely," said Liza's date - what was
his name? - Sean somethingorother.
        "And why in the world didn't she get it -fixed-?  If she's
going to -this- school, you would think she could afford a decent
cybereye and some scar refusion."
        "Gamilons take pride in disfigurement," said Sean
dismissively.  "Barbaric society.  They're worse than the Klingons.
She's supposed to be some kind of princess, right?"
        "Well," said Carol in a tone of exaggerated patience, "that's
what Professor Kraalgh said."
        "Her father is the Gamilon Emperor," said Liza shortly.
        Carol glanced at her, puzzled.  "I didn't think you interested
yourself in that kind of thing."
        "You don't know everything about me," Liza replied.  She
seemed preoccupied, more so than usual, as she watched the Gamilon
princess and her companion move around the dance floor.  Her blue eyes
were narrowed, and there was a small tremor at the corner of her
mouth.
        "You're awfully touchy tonight," said Carol, sounding wounded.
        Liza seemed to realize she was being overly focused and curt,
and, with a visible effort, brought herself partway out of it.  "I'm
not quite myself tonight," she said with forced cheer.  "Headache."
        "I've got just the thing for that," said Sean.  He pulled back
the lapel of his tuxedo jacket and indicated a small silver knob
jutting up above the inside pocket.  It took a few moments of looking
at it for Liza to realize that it was the cap of a flat drinking
flask.

Someone else mentioned the headache thing, but that's quite a bit of focused attention at Amanda and 'that guy she's with'...

...and we don't rightly know exactly who Xenia called or who tipped off the PsiCops. She was on the Destiny's Fist when she made it. Surely any communications into and out of a Gamilon warship would be monitored in some fashion, Emperor's daughter or not (especially considering he knows she was behind the assasination attempts on Amanda). Would calling the EA or the Corps outright have even been an option, or would she have had to work through a network, maybe one that went through Aztechnology...

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