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“This is all highly unnecessary,” Anax Therion called out They were coht hours since Sleepwalker Team Blue-7’s attention had been required Forty since she and the batarian had taken their leave of the cargo hold How long had these people been down here, alone, confused, hungry, unable to use comms or the ship’s interface or even half the doors, all of the much worse? She could hear screams, and they were not screae “Let us co”

“Enraged desperation: Unlock the fucking doors and let us out of here,” droned an elcor who then, Anax was nearly certain froeneral direction

This is a Code White situation I repeat, ship security is currently set to Code White There is an active pathogen aboard the Keelah Si’yah

The most extraordinary wail of hopelessness and terror went up around the cargo hold, fros Not one of them moved toward their respective environmental zones

“Hello, stranger,” came a voice too close to Anax’s ear She whipped her head around to see Borbala Ferank crouching next to her, shotgun in hand, peering up over the lip of the overturned crate, the only thing between them and a shot between the eyes

“Where did you come from?” asked Anax It was the first time anyone had successfully snuck up on her in years

“Oh, I’ve been here It doesn’t take very long to count up very little,this takes, and divide by all of us I ca and what do you know—our intrepid colonists have colonized the place They wanted food I could estured toward one of the container corridors Borbala Ferank’s precious frozen fish bowls lay everywhere shattered, rolling around the floor like a child’s ouged out of the bellies “They ht have asked more politely”

Please remain calm and return to your respective environmental control zones This will help to slow the spread of the disease Right now, drell, hanar, batarian, and elcor are all susceptible The earliest sy sweet scent, followed by a distinctive rash, extreue, and small blue abscesses around the throat, chest, and under the ar this phase These sy, fever, and excessive hunger The final stages are characterized by euphoria, hallucinations, severe ede panencephalitis, which is a very scientific way of saying violent, all-consu madness as the brain swells in the skull Unfortunately, all cases so far have been fatal

Please remain calm

“Really wish she wouldn’t do that,” Anax Therion gri to stay calm now”

“Shall we ested

The drell glanced over at Irit Non She was pinned down far worse on her end of the row

“You go!” the volus snarled “Go, go, go!”

Your first officer is atte to repair several malfunctions in the ship’s datacore Until he does so, the following syste control, person-to-person co, tra those on small arms containers Revival cascades have coer in cryobays 1, 4, and 8, which is why so ht now

Senna’Nir spliced another pair of wires together on a panel in the empty tramway tunnel The captain’s voice sharpened on the intercom Their tram car had shut down, stuck halfway between the quarian zone and the Radial They’d split up, the captain heading for o hold, trying to meet up with the drell and the volus there But there was a mainframe access panel down here, Senna remembered from the blueprints back on Hephaestus They stood near it now, in the dark, while Senna made it possible for Qetsi to tal