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“Who is inquiring after hi his head to one side

“My name is Anax Therion, this is Borbala Ferank We’re part of the Sleepwalker teaen Malak’Rafa was part of the previous one” She decided on a s out all the members of Yellow-9 Soht be one of the dead and frozen in space light years behind them

“Then I am he,” said one of the shorter, less lucky card players, and turned to face them

He crossed his arms over his chest Malak’Rafa vas Keelah Si’yah looked like every other quarian—they were by far thequarians You could not see their faces, their pupils dilating, their sweat response, the dryness of their lips And they didn’t care about anything but their fleet, so threatening the in here either Shadows and di turned Malak’Rafa into a dark statue Until he saw Anax in her volus suit, shoved his chair violently backward, and leapt up

“Keelah se’lai, what kind of a bosh’tet a at?” marveled the quarian medical specialist in a thick but not iestured at the drell in the volus suit

“A drell, I assure you,” Anax said “May we have the room?”

The other quarians nodded and drifted off calmly It was not that they were not worried, for the ship, for the others—but they were not worried for themselves, and itto run at the whatever weapon they’d dug out of a locker or so to be fed No one else could eat the quarian’s dextro-protein food anyway, so they were altogether in better shape than most

“Listen, kid,” Borbala began, settling down on one of the other card players’ chairs “This ship is under attack You have to know that Just because no one is torpedoing us out of the sky doesn’t mean we’re not under attack”

“I really wish I could help,” Malak said, and he really did sound like he meant it

“You can, Sleepwalker,” Borbala said casually “Everything was fine until your team went on shift So why don’t you tell us—what did you do while the rest of us were napping, you naughty boy?”

The quarian went raht How unexpected What did you do?

“Am I the only one ofsome effort to keep his voice calm “Keelah Si’yah, locate Systems Analyst Soval Raxios”

Illegal query Soval Raxios is not on board the Keelah Si’yah

Why does this seeht “The co anyone at the ized quickly If he didn’t know she was dead, she e to know so another did not “Why did you ask about her specifically?” Anax asked

“She’s… She’s a friend She can tell you that I didn’t do anything during our cycle but check life signs on 20,000 cryopods”