"That took longer than I thought it would, but we finally got it out of them.."
Their captives had been incredibly tightlipped about who had hired them considering their current situation.
Thanks to Kasandra's ability to detect lies though, Avery and Tuuali were able to narrow down the people that actually knew anything fairly quickly.
There had been two captains and the lieutenant of the fleet's commander who took his own life to avoid capture that knew exactly who had hired their group.
Everyone else was in the dark even if they tried to say otherwise to obfuscate the information.
These people were professionals at their jobs, and no doubt they had ever considered losing.
Unfortunately, their intel was horribly wrong.
Like so many others before them, they had believed that the Intrepid was just a cargo ship with extra armor.
