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“With gri voice echoed in the quiet “What is happening now is that everyone not wearing a containoing to stand against the rear wall of the iso-chanostic array to collect samples from you and put them in the hazmat capsule on your side” The elcor indicated a circle cut out of the lass bubble, that ter passed between the safe zone and the unsafe zone could be collected “Or I will instruct the iso-chamber to release the mother of all sedatives and take what I need anyway”

“And what is it you need, Specialist?” the captain said grimly

“Voernails, everything Gri to watch over a batarian weapons dealer with three ex-wives, financial trouble, and two young children I a to watch him while he either recovers from the worst cryosickness in recorded medical history, or, more likely, while he slowly dies behind that forcefield I a to try to think of a way to save us” If Dal’Virra had Yoqtan, the virus had achieved spillover: crossing between species And it had done it twice If he could record the progression of the disease, they would at least have soin He would at least be able to tell if any of the others started to show syh it have no tongue, will speak with an’”

“That’s barbaric,” said Senna’Nir “It’s completely unethical”

“Guilty rejoinder: So is dying alone in space, Senna You have a suit We do not Do not lecture us on the ethics of a pathogen”

“This one is filled with fascination, but will not be able to bear witness This onethe stars,” Ysses sang “This one cannot allow the corporeal form of the Enkindled to be ‘airlocked’ with those who did not serve it”

“That sounds spectacular,” said Borbala, checking the charge on her pistol “It really does And you should definitely do that, after you call the janitorial drones to clean up… let us call it the last failure of Jalosk Dal’Virra But we have another problem”

“Youfor almost twenty-four hours without food or sleep, we’re all exhausted, the ship’s systean with a head injury, and there are almost six hundred infectious corpses on ice in the lower hold?” asked Senna’Nir “Other than that, what care could we have in the world, Borbala Ferank?”

The batarian er into the air “Listen,” she said

Yorrik strained to hear what sherespiration of Ysses beside hied, tortured breathing of Jalosk Dal’Virra in his e

But the rest was silence

Then

Plink Plink Thunk Thunk-SLAM

Borbala’s three good eyes blinked at them in succession “That’s debris,” she said “Just the nor around in space You know, the kind of junk we have a huge array of biotic shields to keep froht speeds”

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