RD: Chapter 14

I blink as I materialize in a dark storage bay.  In front of me there are two Remans bending over the computer console I need to get to.  Unfortunately I can not use my disruptor as it would set off alarms.  Quietly, like the silent huntress I'm pretending to be, I withdraw my honor-blade.  Silently, I slip up behind the guards.  Suddenly I reach up and twist his neck quickly, violently, just as I have been trained.  There is a loud crack and I feel the bones of his neck pop beneath my hands.  I pull back in mild shock feeling the fire of passion pumping through my veins.  
The other guard spins on my suddenly like a cat.  He's the first Reman I have ever seen in person.  They are truly hideous creatures with mottled grey skin, sunken eyes, elongated ears, and protruding teeth.  The lumbering creature attacks swifter than I expected but I still avoid the blow.  I turn quickly despite to remember the lessons Tarven has by now beaten into me about knife fighting.  The guard turns on me disruptor drawn.  I didn't know they had disruptors!  I jump out of the way quickly and grab the creature's wrist wrenching it in a hard twisting motion.  To my relief, the disruptor clatters to the floor.
However now I have angered the guard and he uses my own momentum to send me hurdling across the room and landing on some barrels.  I lay there dazed a moment.  I jump as I see the Reman charging me angrily.  I just manage to block his blade with mine and my body amour.  I force myself up to face him.  The Reman sniffs angrily saying in a gravely voice, "A sister-child!  How can you stand against me?  A warrior trained in the pits of Arreniye itself!  I shall destroy you."
I know not to listen to his words and try to concentrate on the battle before me.  The Reman charges and I manage to block his strong blows but just barely.  He is stronger than me, that much is clear.  I spin on him quickly trying to bring a blow down on his neck but I'm block and the force of it forces my weapon from my hands.  But, The Elements be praised!  His weapon was lost too.  Angrily the Reman turns to take care of me with his bare hands if that is what is required.  Thinking quickly, I yank one of the sharp stiletto blades from my hair and quickly force it in front of me impaling the Reman just along the pulsing vein in his neck.  I jump back from the spurt of blood, as fortunately the Reman falls back; his life force draining from him.  
I breathe heavily leaning on a barrel.  My first kill, But it nearly cost me my life.  Why did the Aendah send me on this mission?  Surely there must have been a more experienced agent.  But, Donatra must have a reason.
I tap a couple of the panels searching for a map of the ship.  Our own maps were incomplete.  Soon I find one.  It may be in Reman but the language is similar to my own Rihannsu (1), if more guttural when spoken.  Quickly I move the map to my tiny data PADD.  Then I hide the Remans behind some of the barrels and crawl into the air ducts.
I creep through the constricting metal panels as quietly as possible.  It's freezing on this ship!  I want to get to a turbolift and get to the engineering section as soon as possible.  Finally I extract myself from the duct system feeling like an over grown rat.  Quickly I dart into the turbolift.  It takes me to a hall just outside engineering.  Then, begrudgingly, I crawl back into the Air ducts.  
I crawl to the engineering section.  Finally I remove the panel over looking the section.  Pale Reman officers mill about checking their panels.  The warp core is a sickening green color, but at the moment unattained.  I quickly attach the retractable rope to the air duct then buckle it to my waist.  I test it with a quick jerk.  Finally, closing my eyes, I let it lower me down.  Once my feet touch the floor, I detach the rope and quickly dart behind a pillar.  Some of the Remans look up but then go back their diagnostics.  Quickly I slip the implosive device from my boot set it to go off in three minutes.  Then I draw my miniature disruptor.  Quickly once I confirm the Remans are still working, I slip out of my hiding place, sharp tipped ears listening for any sounds of pursue.  5 meters, 4, 3, 2, 1…My mind counts down the space between me and my target.  Finally I reach the warp core protected by the banister.  I need only place the device on the banister.  Causally, as though I was in my own ship, I slip my fingers under the banister placing the device.  I creep back to the rope.  I'm almost there when one of the workers looks up.  
"Rihannsu!" (2) The cry is let loose.  I jump as my personal force-felid blocks the deadly red blasts.  Quickly I fire back as the alarms begin to ring.  I attract the rope and quickly am reeled back up.  No time for silence this time, I scramble down the duct jumping one of the Remans blocking my exit.  I run backwards firing as I go.  Any minute now the device will go off and I will be beamed back to the Valdore.  But as I run from the Remans, the ship lurches slightly.  Wait, that's it!  That cannot have damaged the Core.   
Now truly terrified, I sprint down unfamiliar corridors.  Unfortunately, another Reman patrol stands in my way.  I turn to run the other way only to run into more Remans.  Finally giving into fate.  I drop my disruptor and raise my hands.