I Break From The Crowd, I'm On The Hunt, I'm After You
Security arrived just when I had predicted they would, as I was moving away from Grace and blending back into the crowd.
"I fully expect you're going to escape later," I overheard Travis say to the Klingon-Trill, and I agreed. But while Mad Maddie was occupied with her prisoners, I was the only one (as far as I knew) who was already looking for their ship. If they were unable to escape, I would attempt to assist them… but if they did escape, and I found their ship, then I would be waiting for them.
As I made my way slowly through the crowd, trying to be inconspicuous (which was quite easy, since most people were moving in the other direction, trying to see the action), I pondered the trio from another dimension. Two of them were obviously the analogs of Mad Maddie and Luke Spiegel, but the third was totally unfamiliar to me. I suspected that she was the leader of the group, if only because I could not picture either of the other two managing to keep her under control, or forcing her to do something which she did not already want to do.
My thoughts wandered in three directions, simultaneously. First, I started cataloging the places I should go to search for their ship, and prioritizing them based upon the likelihood of success, and the location of each site on Terok Nor in relation to the others, so that I would spend the least time necessary moving between locations, while not sacrificing my time on statistically unlikely locations. I assumed they had a small shuttle, since there were only three of them (so far) who had made an appearance. I had not discounted the possibility that this group was a distraction, while another group worked elsewhere. In any event, their ship either looked similar enough to the ships of this dimension that it had gone unnoticed among the others docked with Terok Nor, or it employed some form of the "cloaking device" which their universe had developed to keep it from being noticed at all. Finally, there were a couple of places they could have docked far from the more populous parts of the station if their ship was visible and of a unique visage; but even there it could go unnoticed for only so long.
Second, I was pondering the devices which I had seen Luke Spiegel's doppelgänger manipulating, and hiding in his pockets. I did not recognize the technology; it might be something useful to acquire. (I had developed a level of pickpocketing ability while travelling on the Morgue Trade; unfortunately, very few people on Terok Nor had pockets, making the skill useless. Until now, perhaps.
Third, I could not help but to wonder whether or not there was a Storvik in their universe; and if so, did they know him… and… what was he like?