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“Borbala,” she half-wheezed through her air filters “We get the eezo and then we go to my quarters”

“My my, Miss Therion, I had no idea!” trilled the batarian with an amused lilt “You’ve quite swept me off my feet Do you even have quarters? I suppose we’ll make the best of it…”

“You are a fool with your h drell both awake and alive that I can take any room in the Rakhana zone without issue But not because I desire you Because if I do not get this suit off, in an hour or two, I will be seeing three of you, as well as goblins cli blood saracefully, be out of enerally”

“All right, all right, calm down, my little ro Straight shot to !”

“Maybe you’re dying,” Anax said dryly “Now, are you going to tell uess?”

“You wouldn’t begrudge ?” said Borbala Ferank, as she had in front of that wall of fish, what seeo But this time her voice was not so merry or arch It was quiet and perhaps even a little ashamed Anax Therion had no idea what to do with this batarian She was nothing like the others Nothing like the one that had called her mother of worms The one as dead in a stack in the mess hall now Amonkira, Lord of Hunters, protect and defend me All I wanted was a new life I would settle to retain any life at all when this is done “I… I am not so different as they took me for, my poor, stupid sons What was I supposed to do in Andro?” She repeated as she had before, but hollo, and tired “I am what I aler and a sche” Borbala Ferank sang softly under her breath, a tune Anax did not know, but one that sounded somehow familiar

Oh, better far to live and die

Under the Khar’shan flag I fly,

Than choose to play the paragon’s part,

With a pirate head and a pirate heart

Away to the Citadel go you,

Where pirates all are well-to-do;

But I’ll stay true to the life contrarian,

And live and die batarian

“Ah well A new life in Andromeda, they said And so now you will hate ht into that new life Because of what I could not resist Because of what I was afraid to leave behind The old ways, the old world I sled the old life into the new, and noill have neither it nor the profit, which is, perhaps, what I deserve But I cannot… Anax, I cannot escape what I was born, any s That is the wholeof caste If you could escape it, it would not be much of a caste” She tried to smirk “Don’t say our date’s off”