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Ysses and Yorrik listened patiently to a long rue and several loud crashes

“Would an Adas Anti-Synthetic Rifle work?” asked Anax finally, slightly out of breath

Affirht, and ae all utilize thionin acetate

“I must admit, I’m positively invested in this family,” mused Borbala Ferank “Guns, booze, toys, and a junior science fair”

“Dry wit: Sounds like a quarian toto worry that this was taking so long They had to report back to Senna’Nir in a few hours He glanced down at the frozen corpses nervously He did not like the look of those sores on the drell neck-frills He did not like them at all There were so many of them

“A,” said the drell with a raspy, rather pretty laugh She corrected herself “Still not rounds, K?”

Rutheniu, preserving, bottling, and labeling, though it is toxic to asari, humans, and salarians

“Quarian nutrient paste doesn’t require much in the way of preservation,” Anax said doubtfully “I don’t think we’re going to find any jars of jam in here Most of our food stores were meant to be supplied by the Nexus and the Pathfinder worlds Maybe in the other cargo holds I did not want to go through the luggage records if we did not have to There are twenty thousand of us We’ll be in the Androh every copy of Fornix so”

They heard Borbala Ferank’s phlegh loud and clear “Yeah, we don’t need to My favorite h she’s a naughty little war beast who kneasn’t allowed I’ve bought and sold more Horosk bottles than you want to know about You can see the cork fro boat”

Veridium tricupridase, or Drell Belly Green no 15, is widely used in toy and jewelry fabrication

“Taken care of The easiest one yet Rhodamine is the last, yes? Honestly, ht there was no hope Perhaps there is a rough luck in this universe, after all Where can we scavenge our rhodamine, K?”

Yorrik marveled at how expressive the drell’s voice was He had no trouble understanding her, as he often did with aliens who insisted on speaking to coh six decks between them

Rhoda, but is no longer favored by contemporary artists, due to its rarity I ae that advertises rhodamine in its inventory It cannot be “commonly found”

Yorrik fumed He’d known at least half of those He’d have remembered in another minute or two Of course the computer could come up with the answer But the Keelah Si’yah didn’t need an audience to thrive A computer didn’t need applause And it didn’t matter in the end The ship didn’t have the final answer any more than he did

“And where,” cah, velvet, unbothered voice of the drell detective, “ht it be uncommonly found?”