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“Warm affection: Say it, Senna,” he rasped “It is time Say it Wry rejoinder: Also it is clear how this happened I have been breathing Fortinbras in for days I did not want you to know”
“Say what?” The quarian tried to shift his weight, to get the whole of Yorrik’s gigantic head into his lap, lifted up off the floor of the clinic “Oh, no, no, Yorrik, no you don’t You just had a fall You’re not going to die, don’t be stupid You’ve got to get up and save us You found our needle She’s just there, near the iso-chamber Noe just need to thread it And look—Yorrik, look up!” The elcor tried, he really did, but the rooray and purple Nice splotches “Anax and Borbala brought your eezo It’s all here for you, old man We’re all here for you”
“‘Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean frootten to preface it with emotion Now they wouldn’t understand They wouldn’t knohat he ain but his throat, his throat hurt him so
“Ysses…” he ed
“Is in custody,” Anax Therion said, and the sharp green of her voice cut through his fogged mind
Yorrik struggled to his feet The madness would come soon He kneould He had seen it, heard it, and no doctor suffers from the usual delusion that he will be any different than another patient The progression of a disease is the progression of a disease He would soon be nothing but a rae aimed at all these people It was clever, really, as far as a virus can be clever The spores that shot out of the abscesses at the point of rupture spread the infection one way, but once the victie of the final phases, their lust for destruction and death would spread it, too, fluid to fluid, a classic if ever there was one
“Angry: You took h it,” he growled, and felt resent like blood in him
Senna’Nir stood back a little, ready to try, very vainly, to catch the enorain Good Senna Always so good
“Grande of pride in his voice, “How do you engineer an active retrovirus?”
Hello, Grandson Well, first you pour yourself a very tall drink, ’cause this is going to take a while Then, you’ve got to isolate the immuno-cells and treat your eezo source to leach impurities—
“Overjoyed: You got the ship working again”
“Not at all, but we’ve got a few systeh?”
“Satisfaction: Enough Warning: You should not be near ious at the moment Go I will alert you when I have finished”
“Can’t I help? I want to stay with you Like that night e drank ryncol and watched the stars down by the river Do you reht?”
“With great love: Say it for et another chance”