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them alive and hidden from the rest of the world. A temporal jump should not be possible; obviously it is, but there are problems with it. Guard our travelers well and care for them; they are the only ones that will be able to give us the answers to our questions."
    "Admiral, the two younger girls have been abused very badly. We are treating their wounds, but they are going to need psychological help once they wake up. Who would do such a thing to them?" The lead doctor asked.
    "Jared Smalls, the senior Navigator in charge of The Citadel. He took the two girls hostage in order to use their brothers as spies in the research labs on the planet. We don't know how many others he might have taken as well, but that is one of the issues Major Anderson is being sent there to discover," Hawklings explained.
    The doctor shook his head. "I'm sorry, Sir, but the Major can't go anywhere in his present condition."
    Hawklings smiled. "Doctor, the Major I'm speaking of is currently on his way to The Citadel."
    The doctor shook his head. "This is going to give me a headache!"
    "In order to avoid a lot of unanswerable questions, your patients cannot exist yet. So for now, just take care of them. Call me or Brian directly, and no one else, as soon as their condition changes," Hawklings ordered, referring to the local station commander. "Until then, no one else is to know who they are or that they are even here, understood?"
    "Yes Sir, we'll take care of it. The nurses will have to know, but we can take care of that," the Doctor replied.
    Hawklings nodded. "Other than the obvious, what are their conditions?"
    "They are all showing signs of extreme physical fatigue. Navigator Gillian Hewes has a fractured ankle, Major Anderson took a stim shot at some point; we can still detect the drug in his system," the doctor reported.
    "What do the nanocytes report?" Hawklings asked.
    The doctor sighed. "Whatever is affecting them seems to be affecting the nano's as well, they are currently inactive and will not respond to any of our queries. They're still in there, they still show as functional, but they are not responding to us. It's almost like we don't have the right comm channel to talk to them."
    "Are they still doing their jobs? You said the two girls were in bad shape…" Hawklings asked.
    "Not presently, which is one of the concerns we have. They were, that much is clear, but like their hosts, they are just… idle." The doctor replied. "It's kind of spooky really, almost like they are in a type of stasis."
    "Are they?" Hawklings asked.
    The man shrugged. "We just don't know yet. I could order a cellular analysis, but you want this kept quiet. If they found anything unusual, they'd want to know why."
    "Do what you can, Doc. It's more important to just keep them alive for now. With any luck, this won't last very long," Hawklings replied.
    "Wait, Ryers, get another blood sample from the Major and check for stim levels," the doctor said.
    The light seemed to come on for the PA and she left the office. "What are you up to, Doctor?" Hawklings asked.
    "Sir, we know how quickly the stims are metabolized in the body. We ran the blood work on the Major as part of our original examination. He's been here for four hours now, the level of stims in his system should be almost half. If they're not, then his body isn't purging the drug, which means he can't be aging either. That'll answer your stasis question. But then the question becomes, what's holding them in stasis?" The doctor replied thoughtfully.
    "That is a question we may never find the answer to, Doctor," the station commander replied.
    Hawklings nodded his agreement. "Doctor, I want you to keep all information on this isolated, and send it all to me after they wake up. Even the stuff you discover while caring for them. Okay?"
    The doctor nodded. "We are well into the realm of the unknown here, Admiral. I can very well understand that. It may well be that we are not meant to know this yet. What is it