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. The Loti is the only one who can understand the empath. He acted as a sort of translator whenever Ohme needed to know what someone was thinking or feeling." "What race is the empath?"
"Bosk claims no one knows. The empath was always cloaked in some sort of disguise. No one ever saw the face. Ohme had no interest in trying to find out."
"So long as the empath proved useful, Snaga Ohme wouldn't care."
"On studying the empath's description, Commander, I think it probable that we are dealing with a Tongan."
The Knight Commander was silent again.
"I have examined all the facts, Knight Commander. The empath is extremely short in stature. He is always disguised, which indicates that there is something unusual about his features or his body, and the Tongans as a race are as ugly as the Adonians are beautiful. He appears to have not only empathic abilities but telepathic abilities as well. Tongans are the only race to meet all these requirements."
"You know, of course, Knight Officer, that Tongans are forbidden on pain of death from leaving their home world?"
"All the more reason for the disguise, sir."
"Perhaps you are right. At any rate, such an unusual pair would be fairly easy to track."
"Bosk had no difficulty, at first. He and the Loft kept in contact. Both of them were eager to avenge Ohme's death. But whereas Bosk had determined that Ohme was murdered by Derek Sagan, the Loti was following a different theory
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