Debts Repaid

[Durandal]

....."Then I suppose we have nothing more to discuss." He said, closing his eyes and folding his hands behind his back, awaiting the familiar feeling of the cuffs around his wrists.

He stood there for what felt like a bit longer than the standard second it would take for the guards to have him restrained and on his way back to his cell. But there were no commands and no cuffs, just a strange atmosphere of unease throughout the ad hoc courtroom which was quiet enough to hear a pin drop in. "I thought our ruling was clear. We cannot let you return to the Legion, but you are not a prisoner aboard this ship, Señor Locklear. Your actions, while reprehensible, were not of malicious intent. You are free, at least within the Aurora."

.....The room began to empty, and Samuel Ethan Locklear took his first free steps aboard the Aurora back to his cell.