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k to her ship She looked at him with hope and h the shadowed glass of her faceplate Senna felt for her He was horrifically glad all he had to do was hotwire a microphone She had to hotwire the morale of half a starship

“A okay?” she whispered

“You’re doing fine” He squeezed her hand

“I’ve spliced the trarandot to turnwith my time You kno I feel about idle hands around the house I’et back here I suspect it’ll only work temporarily”

“Not now,” Senna hissed as cool, clean, elegant, enerated code flowed down the curve of his faceplate “You fixed so? You really did? And… you couldn’t have fixed the shields first?”

“What?” Qetsi said in the shadows of the transport tube, her voice frightened, sounding so er than she was

“Nothing,” he said as he transferred the patch through his o”

Deep in the bowels of the ship, Senna heard a tra, reluctant sound

If you detect symptoms in yourself or others, do not report to nated residential quarters on your species’ environmental control decks and await further coinning with the drell in Mess Hall 2 We have limited supplies on hand We are at least three weeks’ travel from the nearest planet, which is, I shouldto eat on it but dust and a very calorie-inefficient lichen, so weas possible

Yorrik had, at long last, pushed beyond all endurance, fallen asleep The iso-shield still shi elcor and the wracked corpse of Jalosk Dal’Virra leaning against the almost-invisible barrier The stars still blinked by outside, too fast to count

The hanar Ysses stood above hi The captain’s voice echoed in the empty lab as Ysses raised itself on its tentacles and released the iso-field The body inside toppled out with a wet sound as it hit the floor Yorrik did not wake

Ysses giggled It turned around and glided past the tables stained with dried dye, past the krogan microscope, past the ruins of the stuffed volus, past Horatio, past the dorled again as it pressed its gelatinous li the correct code out of the interface never meant for its species

The persistent quarantine tone ceased to chilass walls The lided open

Ysses giggled again