Mass Effect X-3: "Until Our Last Breath" [OPEN/ACCEPTING]

[707sTYPO]

❝If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.❞

[kitties!]No, I don't want anyone to see! would've been her answer before he stated the obvious Don't trust you. Well, there was a surprise. Then again, she was a little glad he was overestimating her diabolical-plan-making-prowess rather than underestimating it. Still, she really didn't care what he thought, but if he truly believed that Nali was doing something, she couldn't blame him. Well, that, and she didn't want to risk him going off and sharing his suspicions with more important people. ...just about anyone else. Again, what she'd been doing was harmless, but Nali didn't feel like explaining to the ship that she was a 315-year-old warrior who genuinely enjoyed the very same vids that entertained Earth children some one-and-a-half centuries ago.

[kitties!]Having weighed the options, the asari sighed, her head falling back a few degrees as if the rolling of her eyes was pushing it back. "Alright," she growled, raising her arm in front of her to summon the omni-tool again, the screen coming up to continue the old vid. When it'd been playing for a second, the lady extended her arm out to the side to show the vorcha what was playing on the screen: a slightly-distorted Aladdin playing in all of its digitally-remastered glory.

[kitties!]"There. See? Just a vid. I'm not planning anything or sharing any critical data. I'm just trying to enjoy a vid. In peace."


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ｔｈｅ ａｍａｚｏｎ (ｃａｒｇｏ ｂａｙ)

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ｊａｓｋ

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ｅｎ ｒｏｕｔｅ ｔｏ ｔｈｅ ａｍａｚｏｎ ｃａｐｔａｉｎｓ ｑｕａｒｔｅｒｓ ｃａｒｇｏ ｂａｙ ｃｉｃ ｅｌｅｖａｔｏｒ ｍｅｄｉｃａｌ ｍｅｓｓ ｈａｌｌ ｓｈｕｔｔｌｅ ｏｍｅｇａ ａｆｔｅｒｌｉｆｅ ｎｏ ｏｎｅ ｓｈｏｒｅ ｐａｒｔｙ ｐｅｏｐｌｅ ｂａｒａｔ ｊａｓｋ ｋｒｏｇａｎ ｏｔｉｕｍ ｒｙａｎ ｓｋｉｐｐｅｒ ｔａｅｌｏｎ ｖｅｌｏｒｉｘ ｖｅｒｏｎｉｃａ ｄａｒｋ ｍｏｏｎｓ

[Jiggy_Jr]

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Jask watched her as she rolled her head back, most likely in annoyance. He didn't care if she was annoyed, and he just continued to glare at her until she activated her omni-tool once again, and the screen flickered to life. With a grunt he turned his attention back onto the small screen, and was met once again with the image of the cartoon from before.

He'd never actually seen these before, only heard maybe one or two brief mentions of them around the ship. But other than that, he'd had no real exposure to them at all, and he glanced at the screen now with slight intrigue.

"Never fails, get in the bath and there's a rub at the lamp." A weird human-looking... thing spoke. Jask blinked, already beyond confused with what was going on. The scene was different from before, but he was just glad that those two humans weren't singing anymore. He continued to watch as the strange blue human-thing somehow transformed into a sub and shot out of the water. Humans subjected their children to this kind of thing? This explained a lot, actually...

He continued to watch the screen with interest now. This didn't seem too sinister. Really, really strange. But not sinister. After a moment, he gave the asari an incredulous look and spoke.

"No wonder you're all crazy." He grunted, looking back down to the screen again.

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[707sTYPO]

❝If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.❞

[kitties!]Nali's lips suddenly cracked into a smile when she glanced to the screen and the "blue human" known as Genie appeared so whimsically. It was then that she remembered that she liked that character. A lot. He reminded her of Lyrana, actually. He was quirky, knew how to make things happen, and...well, blue. Then Skipper was the younger male human because they were both idiots (albeit reliable idiots), Velorix was the little brown pyjack because he was the little sidekick guy who was there to save the day when it was needed, and...wait, it was completely normal for an adult to compare the characters in a vid to those in her life, right?

[kitties!]"No wonder you're all crazy."

[kitties!]The lady's head actually jutted back a little, the asari completely taken aback by the words that'd just come from the vorcha at whom she was staring with wide eyes. Crazy? Well, that was just...crazy, and she would've told him that if it wasn't so noticeable that he was watching the vid rather attentively. For just a moment, she forgot he was a vorcha and remembered, full-grown or not, he was still only a few years old. Come to think of it, Krogan wasn't as old as he looked, either, right? After a short debate, she sighed quietly and tapped at her omni-tool to restart the movie.

[kitties!]"I haven't seen the beginning since everything went to hell, so I'm gonna start it over again," she admitted. She hadn't forgotten anything, of course, but Nali wasn't just going to come out and say, here, I'll start it over so you can follow the story. Moving her arm to reset the movie, however, reminded her that her arm was going to get tired if she kept it held out for the both of them to watch it, so she waved it at a nearby screen on the wall. Said screen was usually used to display schedules for expected shipments and stuff, but...it'd been left blank for a while. That is...until the screen went red and purple like smoke and the word Aladdin faded into view.


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ｔｈｅ ａｍａｚｏｎ (ｃａｒｇｏ ｂａｙ)

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ｊａｓｋ

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[Solid Snake in the Box]

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'K r o g a n'
" Kill, or kill lots.
└ There is no try.~ Krogan Shaman ┘

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Was Thinking About: ..................

This one? No.

How about this one? Nah.

Maybe- No. NO NO NO! He slammed the last gun back down onto the table and stomped off. He wasn't sure why he was upset, but he was. Something needed to be punched...or something. He lumbered down to the elevator with some humans, which must have been an awkward situation seeing as everyone gave him a reasonable sized amount of space as if he'd just commited an act of flatulence. One person awkwardly rose a fist to their mouth and coughed, some woman with the misfortune of being behind him...no he didn't do that, but that wasn't the best place to be, you know? When the doors to the cargo hold opened he stepped out, and as the doors shut you could hear people coughing. NOW he did.

He gazed about from side to side like a an animal, before he darted to his left and off the stairs he was on and in a fluid motion flipped about and crawled under them and into his hidey hole, setting his helmet down at the side of his crate lid mattress, he looked about the area before he let out a grunt, and peeked his head out the hide-y hole, and spied HER. His squinted eyes widened happily as his mood took an abrupt U-turn, as he also took notice of Jask which made him remember...after he reached into his crate of- whatever was in there he wasn't about to say but: he soon exited and lumbered over with something curled up into one fist, but before he could say anything he turned his attention to the screen they were looking at. There was a cloud of red smoke and then-

His eyes widened and seemed to glisten like a child sitting on Santa's Lap before he ran off back to his hide-y hole, and came back with Sergeant Snuggles in his other hand before slidding to the ground and scooted up as close as he possibly could to the screen with a big grin on his face that just screamed bloodthirsty battlemaster- oh wait no it didn't, that was the look of a happy human baby. He turned his head back to the others with that look on his face before holding his right fist out to jask, uncurling it to reveal: two half melted chocolate bars.

Currently Thinking About: Skipper. What is this name?

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└ "Oh...you said incapacitate? I thought you said decap- Errr, I mean- Nothing!"~ Krogan. ┘

[Jiggy_Jr]

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When Nali restarted the video, Jask looked up to her for a moment in mild irritation, but quickly forgot it when the image was transferred onto the much larger screen on the wall. He turned to look at it with slight amazement. Humans had made this? As the title screen faded away and was replaced with some strange creature walking through the desert, Jask couldn't help but just stare at the moving image. He sniffed a little in distaste when he realized that the human on the screen was singing again, and shot Nali a look of skeptical caution before advancing and sitting on one of the crates in front of the screen.

He glanced over in surprise when the booming footsteps of what appeared to be a very excited krogan were heard, and sure enough the behemoth had decided to join them, but for some reason quickly ran off again. Jask glanced back to the screen:

"... combination hookah and coffee-maker. Also makes julienne fries. Will not break. Will not-- it broke."

The vorcha tilted his head and snickered. That was actually pretty funny. And he continued to watch the screen until Krogan soon returned, with his teddy bear in hand. He sat down in front of them, and Jask looked at him in curiosity as he turned around and held his fist out to him. He was confused at first, until Krogan turned his hand over to reveal the partially-melted chocolate bars, and he sat up straighter and his eyes widened a little before reaching out and grabbing one. He wanted to take them both, but quickly decided against it, and nodded to Krogan. It surprised him at first, but Krogan was actually a pretty nice guy.

As the movie continued, Jask's eyes once again became fixated on the screen and he ripped the wrapper open with his teeth and began to eat the first chocolate bar he'd had in way too long.

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[707sTYPO]

❝If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.❞

[kitties!]The omni-tool disappeared, and Nali glanced over briefly when a heavy form passed them and into the little spot he'd claimed before she turned her head back to the screen. Standing there was a bit awkward, though, so the asari backed into her crate where she'd been sitting before and placed her hands on the top to lift herself onto the container. Though the angle was weird as her seat was more next to the screen than near it, she didn't really mind so long as she didn't have to move closer to the vorcha. As soon as she was seated again and had crossed her legs, though, the heavy footsteps were heard again, this time as Krogan so enthusiastically joined them.

[kitties!]...with a treat for Jask, no less. Where'd he get chocolate? When? Krogan'd had food? And it hadn't been eaten yet? Nali wasn't upset at all that the little snacks hadn't been shared before, of course, since a couple bars of chocolate weren't going to do anything to sustain an entire crew, but she was a little perplexed at how the sugary treats had survived this long. Had he actually been saving it for Jask?

[kitties!]Either way, the wrapper was soon done away with, just about the time the little, fat thief on the screen started screaming. As soon as the Cave of Wonders as it was called collapsed on the volus-esque human, the vorcha chomped down onto the chocolate. Instantly, Nali's head whipped back over to the vid, and she clapped her hand tightly over her mouth to keep herself from laughing out loud at the very timing of it all.


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ｔｈｅ ａｍａｚｏｎ (ｃａｒｇｏ ｂａｙ)

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ｊａｓｋ, ｋｒｏｇａｎ

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[Jiggy_Jr]

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Whatever this was, it was interesting, that was for sure. And as the movie progressed, he actually found himself quickly immersed in it. Not that he really knew what was going on. Something about a lamp that was somehow 'special', and a man who was following something through the desert.

Jask sat up straighter in attention as the big pile of sand rose up out of the ground and formed what looked to be the head of an angry animal or something; and he couldn't help but wonder if humans actually had things on Earth that did that. If so, he could see why they were such a strange species. And if not, he was definitely impressed with their creativity. He had no idea how they would even go about making something like that, not that it really mattered to him; and he didn't dwell on it for more than a moment before his attention turned back to his chocolate bar and he took a large bite out of it, still watching the screen with interest as the sand-animal collapsed on top of the little human with a load roar.

His attention was only called away from the screen when he caught sight of the asari seemingly stifling laughter. Was the human getting eaten funny to her or something? He regarded her with a questioning look, before taking another large chunk out of his chocolate bar and turning back towards the screen.

He watched as some strange flying creature came to land on the other human's shoulder and started talking a lot, and he hissed in laughter as the creature just kept going. It reminded him of a few of the people he'd met during his time on the Amazon. They definitely loved to talk. And when the human held the creature's mouth shut, he couldn't help but be amused. He took another bite of the chocolate bar, and soon the whole thing was gone, leaving him to inspect the wrapper and try to get any of the remaining treat off of his face.

Even though the video belonged to the asari, he found himself enjoying it. It was weird, for sure, but at least now he knew that it definitely wasn't some sort of diabolical-plan. Not this time, anyways.

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[Solid Snake in the Box]

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'K r o g a n'
" Kill, or kill lots.
└ There is no try.~ Krogan Shaman ┘

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Was Thinking About: HAH!

His eyes darted from pixel to pixel on the screen, quite happy with what was going on before him. The swirling sands, the music in the background, the silly human figures. Eago and Jaffar. And that fat thief guy who's name really didn't matter anyways as he was soon swallowed by the sand lion, with a loud audible crunch from Jask making the situation more enjoyable as he let out a roar of laughter, pounding the floor behind him (Caution: dent.) before closing his mouth as The parrot (as humans reffered to it.) started chattering away and away and away...before a cracker was stuffed into his mouth. This gave him the idea to turn around with the second chocolate bar and eye Jask, then the bar, then Jask again...there was a flash in his eyes: it was clear what he was going to do, as he then thrust his arm forward, sticking the wrapped chocolate bar....

...in between Nali's fingers, unfortunately unable to really get it into her mouth due to said hand being in the way. He nonetheless seemed visibly pleased by his re-enactment of the scene in the cartoon before he flipped back around to continue watching as if that didn't happen...a krogan watching a children's cartoon. This happened.

Currently Thinking About: MOVIE. WATCH. NOW. HNNNNGH!

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└ "Oh...you said incapacitate? I thought you said decap- Errr, I mean- Nothing!"~ Krogan. ┘

[JesterXI]

"I reckon we should set a vending machine on fire and toss it out the window! Viva la Resistance!"



Once all the crew members of The Amazon had gathered in the CIC, they were greeted by Captain Owyn Skipper who took a breath and began a dramatic speech. The first few part was a heartwarming note of thanks, to the entire crew for their loyalty and service, Veronica smiled warmly at this gesture, but then the next things he desribed was how the ships days of freedom were over, The Amazon was a military ship and had to be run like one. He also stated that insubordination would be dealt with... harshly, mostly likely from the business end of his knife. Veronica grinned as Skipper hot more and more agressive and loud in his speech! It was inspiring! The man had been a depressed drunkard for the past year, and now he was his old self again!

He asked for one final favour, one that Veronica instantly knew the answer for. He wanted their undying loyalty, for them to stay by his side while they take on the traitor Duncan Farrell. Skipper already had Veronica's. and he would most certainly have everyone else's. What kind of crew would they be if they left their Captain at a time like this? A pretty bad one. Skipper dismissed the crew and returned his previously unoccupied quarters. Veronica was feeling rather pumped for whatever the crew had to do next, and cheerfully exited the room. It wasn't the best idea as everyone else had had the same idea, and the elevators were very packed and cramped. Veronica looked back and saw a freshly armoured Krogan speaking to Skipper, was that Tank? If it was he'd had a serious makeover. The elevator dinged and everyone made their way out of the proverbial sardine tin. Veronica's first stop was the armoury. When she got there her gear was removed and her gun placed in its usual spot.

Her next stop. Otium, the drell she had hung out with for a brief time at the arena, she carelessly made a large bet with him, that Skipper would lose against Krogan, not realising Skipper's true power and style. Skipper had won the battle, leaving Veronica 2000 credits poorer. She checked the crew quarters he didn't seem to be there, she noted her bed was a mess, the sheets were coming off at the corner and the quilt was a crumpled mess on the floor, she'd clean it later she reasoned. Her next destination on the hunt for the elusive Otium, was the Cargobay. She looked around for a brief period to find sat in her usual spot eyes fixated in the screen of her Omni-Tool, but the most unusual thing by far was that Krogan and Jask were watching with her. Curiously she wandered over to them, a smile instantly spread over her face and that small childlike spark she still had lit up again. They were watching Aladdin!

However there was no time to sit and watch with them. She gently cleared her throat, " Hey guys? I don't mean to inturrupt this little movie night thing you have going here. But have any of you seen Otium? I have credits to not give him. Well, either that or propose another counter bet. Whoever doesn't pay for the original bet, has to pay double and then... eh, it's an idea in progress! But seriously guys, Otium? Anyone?".

[707sTYPO]

❝If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.❞

[kitties!]Nali's eyes remained on the screen, and she'd kind of forgotten to lower her hand from her mouth until she felt something get shoved between her fingers. The asari froze for a moment and lowered her hand a little to see a wrapped bar of chocolate, somehow melted a little in spite of the cargo hold's slight chill and hanging between two of her fingers by its corner. The second treat Krogan had brought. She'd assumed he was going to eat it or share it with Jask since the two of them were likely more enthusiastic about the chocolate than she was. Nali didn't dislike it, of course. After all, chocolate had a decent amount of caffeine, but she'd just never been especially crazy about sugary foods like candy.

[kitties!]"Thank you," Nali said to Krogan, a slight inclination in tone toward the end of her gratitude. She was kind of tempted to give it back to Krogan since he probably would've enjoyed it more than she would've, but on the other hand...it was a gift. Of sorts. She finally decided to keep the chocolate for herself as the lesser of two evils result in food. That, and Krogan had looked so pleased with the action, even if she'd realized he was trying to shove the wrapped treat into her mouth like the cracker had gone into the chatty, red bird's.

[kitties!]"Hey, guys?"

[kitties!]Nali looked over to the recently-arrived Veronica as she began unwrapping the candy bar, trying her best to keep it intact rather than simply having to submit to the undignified task of licking the melted chocolate off the plastic later on. Still, its slightly-melted state made it easy for the lady to bite into the bar's corner, a relatively small bit as she pushed herself off her crate and stepped over to Veronica. She'd already seen this part of the movie, and the asari didn't want a conversation to distract the other two aliens from the vid. It was kind of amusing, actually...

[kitties!]"I haven't seen Otium since the captain's address," Nali answered after having beckoned the woman a little farther from the screen Jask and Krogan were watching to keep them from hearing any hushed tones, "Why do you owe him money? And if you're in this situation in the first place, you probably shouldn't make it worse with what I'm assuming is a second bet. That's how people get into trouble..."


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ｔｈｅ ａｍａｚｏｎ (ｃａｒｇｏ ｂａｙ)

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ｊａｓｋ, ｋｒｏｇａｎ, ｖｅｒｏｎｉｃａ

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noli me vocare, ego te vocabo

[apt]So, basically, 'do what we say and you get to live.'

[apt]That was somewhat less complicated than Ryan had expected. He could deal with addressing people a little differently than he was used to. Actually, this qualifies as the perfect excuse not to learn anyone's names. Not that they wouldn't stick in his mind eventually, but now he didn't have to expend any effort on searching them out. It was a ship effectively filled with people all labeled exactly the same way according to gender. With one 'Captain' and one 'Commander.' He saw no good reason not to assume everyone ranked higher than himself.

[apt]The glasses on Skipper's face were starting to get to him. He wasn't sure what it was about them. Maybe they simply seemed out of place. Or maybe it was the thought of what would have befallen them had the man been wearing them during the fight with the krogan. Or maybe the shape of the frames was just wrong for the face and Ryan was only now realizing his uniquely useless talent for critiquing eyewear. The last thought didn't help much to quell the impulse to laugh. Luckily, he had quite some practice in keeping a straight face. And after all, he wasn't really looking at glasses, he was looking into the eyes of someone who could crush him.

[apt]"No, captain." What other questions could he possibly have? Especially to someone who was obviously annoyed by his lack of experience.
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[apt][[ OOC: I'm sorry, I have no idea why he finds those glasses so funny. But he's cracking up laughing so hard in the back of my head right now it seems a shame not to record the reaction. ]]

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exitus acta probat

[Captain Teeb]

"I'm like a freaking dead people factory."
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"Atta boy. Now get to work." Skipper said, patting Ryan on the shoulder casually and sending him away. After the engineer had gone, Skipper sighed. He supposed he'd best get to work as well. All right, all right... where do they go from here? They needed somewhere to start on information... information information... Aha! Skipper got it and immediately turned around, hopping into the elevator and getting straight back up to his office. As he entered it, Skipper approached his desk and sat down in his extremely comfortable chair, spinning in it once or twice before stopping and thinking. "... I think this is the first time I've been in and out of this office this much in one day..." before shrugging to himself and turning on the intercom. "This is Captain Skipper. Will Nali T'Roa report to my office at once? Thank you." he spoke simply bef0ore turning off the intercom and leaning back in his chair, waiting for Nali to arrive.
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Where is he? SSV Amazon, Captain's Quarters
And who's he with? Soon to be Nali
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[707sTYPO]

❝If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.❞

[kitties!]Before Veronica could answer the asari's question or respond to her little bit of advice (especially since things were tight as they were, but they were still a long way from forcing everyone from putting forth their personal credits...), Skipper's voice sounded over the speakers again. Yup. There it was. Probably wanted that bit of briefing she'd been trying to put together in her head, trying to make the past year sound...not as dreary as it'd been, but it was a difficult thing to do without lying.

[kitties!]"Nngh, wish me luck," the lady groaned a little before giving the redhead a bit of a weak smile and heading off toward the elevator. It was pleasantly empty, of course, so it must've meant people were busy at work. It was nice to have that air of protocol around the ship as opposed to the make-do Lord of the Flies thing they kind of had going for them for a little while when Nali was still trying to get her head on at the beginning of the last year.

[kitties!]"Skipper," she greeted the human when she got to the right floor and the doors to the man's office opened for her. Nali paused for a moment, though, before hesitantly correcting herself, "Captain?" The maiden wasn't sure which one he wanted to be called given the authority he'd laid on them all in the CIC not too long ago, and while she would've called him Captain if he preferred it, she really didn't want to.


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[Captain Teeb]

"I'm like a freaking dead people factory."
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Owyn eyed Nali momentarily before gesturing for her to sit in the chair across his desk. "Skipper's fine." he said simply. "You called me it before everything went to s**t, why not?" he finished with a smile. After Nali had sat down, he straightened up and rested his forearms on the table and interlocking the fingers on both his hands. Peering through his glasses, Owyn started off casually. "I'll start us off, then." before taking his glasses off and fiddling with them in his left hand with the right still rested on the table. "We've got no idea where Duncan is or what he's doing. Since he's a Spectre he can classify anything and everything he does. So, we need information." he chuckled, leaning back and smiling coyly at Nali. "You still in contact with that kinda sexy family of yours?"

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Where is he? SSV Amazon, Captain's Quarters
And who's he with? Soon to be Nali
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[707sTYPO]

❝If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.❞

[kitties!]"Yeah, well, Nali's fine, too." Phew! Good. Not only did she not have to whip out that depressing summary of their time apart, but she also had permission to keep calling him Skipper. Captain was way too formal for her, anyway, and formalities was one of the reasons she'd left the military in the first place.

[kitties!]Taking the seat as Skipper gestured, she casually leaned back into the bit of cushion on the back. The asari briefly glanced over her shoulder at the chair. It wasn't as comfortable as the one he was using, but she brushed it aside, turning her attention back to the captain as she crossed her arms across her chest and one leg over the other. He had his glasses out, and they actually comforted the asari a little. He was wearing them the first time she remembered seeing him, too. They made him seem more...human.

[kitties!]"Well, not exactly the words I'd use, and it's really just Lyrana, but yeah," Nali answered, an amused look on her face, "Or rather, Lyrana is in contact with the enigmatic Alera she hired to find us and bring us in, keeping her updated on the situation outside of our hull." There was no Alera, of course, but Lyrana couldn't have openly been sending messages to Nali without being kept under investigation at best.


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