Would you like to be a senator?
Tal’kaela stared at the message on her screen, finding an anxiety gripping her. Was this a joke? Was it a Tal Shiar agent trying to get something out of her? Or, by some chance, was this some kind of wild invitation…? She stared at the message with her fingers hovering over her keyboard before tentatively replying:
Perhaps someday if the opportunity ever presents itself.
The Uhlan was tempted to add more, but she figured that until she found out what exactly was behind this message, she’d better play it safe. Her heart pounded in her side as she hit send and wondered if and when she would receive a response. In the back of her mind, she felt a pang as she remembered the two senators she had somehow befriended, and how she had suddenly and unexpectedly lost them both. The grinning, mischievous Senator Letant, and then Senator Vreenak, whom she had grown particularly fond of and close to. She uttered a deep sigh and wondered if they would approve of the way she had responded to this mysterious question.