Yavik not in a hurry to move away from hanging a meter from the surface of the shuttle area. He held out his hand, for which clung Olivia kiborgessa freely and easily jumped on the plate area.
- Cyborg! - Breathed standing close to kiborgesse krogan. - The same!
Shepard nodded. Kiborgessa looked around, took his arm and headed for the Yavika Rex passing so that his other hand to catch Shepard. So the three of them appeared before the leader of the clan.
- Shepard. - Rex smiled his usual, not a terrible smile. - You already made history Tuchanka. And, as always, went to not one, but with his associates. This is the proteanin, about which so much talked about in the Extranet?
- Exactly. - Yavik said, turning to approach Eve. - How are the kids?
- They are out of danger. - Eva looked at proteanina. - I guess I should apologize for the harshness of judgments concerning Protheans. Please forgive me. Your race is able to surprise and now all krogan will know what Prothean technology saved our race from genophage.
- Apologies are accepted. - Prostrekotal Yavik seeing how close the third race. The second shuttle was leaving to the frigate. - Rex, Now you will see that, thanks to whom worked Tower Veil. - Proteanin waited hovering shuttle to open the door. Mordin appeared in the doorway, causing the disturbance mixed sigh of indignation and surprise, mixed with bewilderment.
- Yes. It Mordin Solus. Salarian. It was he who, risking their lives, set in the tower of the vaccine kits and started the process correctly programming the automation. - Prostrekotal Yavik. - Tower, as you know, the last, the elevators do not work - they have not been used. The old design. Mordin took a chance and did everything to make the vaccine has spread across the planet. The results you know - the vaccine works.
- I confirm this. - Eve said. After her words hum of indignation began to subside. - We are again on the matter, and not in words convinced that not all salarians wish us krogan, only evil. Among them there are those who wish us krogan good. I think the act Mordina in content and value worthy of inclusion in the history of krogan race. - Shaman caught the approving roar. - I believe that my compatriots present here expressed quite definitely.
- If our guests do not mind, we can offer all of them to stay in the apartment. - Rex said.
Among normandovtsev offer objections Clan leader did not cause.
Leaning Shepard Rex added:
- Many people will want to talk with your kiborgessami, salarians and proteaninom. Especially proteaninom. No one will be deprived of a good attention, I'm sure.
- Good. - Captain noted that krogan began to disperse, probably realizing that the meeting came to an end. - Eve?
- Call me by my real name. - Kroganka flashed his eyes. - Baqarah.
- Good. Then you and me too by the name - John.
- It's nice and acceptable. - Shaman said. - Give me a little while. I want to talk with you. How you people sometimes put it, "on a wide range of issues." And warn your question, John, tell - you open access to the female clans. You can see for yourself - our little krogan who received the vaccine, confidently and quickly recover.
- The main thing is that they are healthy. - The captain turned to Olivia, Alix and Mordin. - Come on, friends, show you to your rooms in the apartment. Needless to drive shuttles back and forth at the frigate and back. We will stay here more.
- We know, John. - Olivia nodded almost imperceptibly, making it clear to the captain that the subtext of "linger" all understood correctly.
Placing counterparts in rooms, Shepard returned to him. On the threshold of his friend I met pyzhak - the captain had learned to distinguish between these smyshlёnyh intelligent animals. Sitting on the shoulder of the captain, pyzhak settled back, continuing to turn his head and gleamed curious glazёnkami. Apparently, he was accustomed to the fact that sooner or later the captain back to his room and now almost constantly resided here until the guest.
Without paying much attention to the companion behaving quite decent, Shepard made contact with Chakwas.
- Karin is there?
- There are certain improvements. I know that you met on the reserved area. - The doctor said calmly, businesslike.
- We did not expect the stormy enthusiasm, hugging and kissing the. - Said the captain. - The main thing is that no one did not make a complaint to Mordin. Yes, and the appearance of Yavika played a role.
- Heard. Eve is now on a different Protheans he says. - I clarified Chakwas. - We will need a few more days, to be exact - a few days to build on the success and train local staff. Minimum - day.
- I think we will get them.
- Svetlana contacted me. She is aware of all that has happened. Now sleep, children are pushed strongly. Pregnancy ahead of schedule for a month or more. She asked me to supervised you. John, do not let me down, eat and stouter night's sleep. I think until tomorrow morning will be no problems. Scanners "Volga" and "Normandy" will warn if the Reapers turn up.
- I'll try, Karin. - Shepard did not want to argue with the doctor of the frigate. - I'll do as you ask.
- Hope, John. Svetlana and so perenervnichala watching as you jump between the paws of the Reaper and the carcasses of creatures.
- Again. I asked her. - With a share of sincere dissatisfaction and regret Shepard handed.
- It's in her nature, John. She loves you, afraid for you and want you to stay alive and healthy. She's worried about you, and, I believe, very often thinks about you. - I clarified Chakwas. - Okay. Relax. You have to eat and sleep. If you do not do all this properly, Svetlana will be unhappy - she will feel your fatigue and your hunger, sure.
- Well, Karin. Before connection.
- Before connection. - Chakwas switched channels.
Convinced spending conferencing that teammate everything is normal, Shepard had dinner and went to bed. Pyzhak sat next to the bed on a stone stool. He obviously did not want to leave the guest, but how to convince the captain did not want to indulge in his hobby - a fumble on back streets and haul all that will attract attention, in the "beehive".
Perhaps this time Shepard slept very soundly. So fast that in a dream he heard only the end of the conversation, Svetlana and Alla. I heard from the speaker not PHONES Speaker and outside. Heard and did not believe, thought that dream. And when a few hours later opened his eyes, he saw a number of Svetlana. Present. On the face of the wife could read a slight concern. Next to it, a little pootdal was Alla. Doctor cruiser was calm, but some unhappy:
- Shepard, John. I can see that you're awake. - Alla said it quietly, precisely and quickly. - Encourage your wife that you are right. She did not listen to me, I picked up six in the morning on the ship and asked to prepare the shuttle and arrived here with all haste. Krogan were in touch, she went straight to the apartment to you. Of course, they know that you are married, but it looks like Svetlana incidentally wounded several dozen double kroganskih hearts. She tried to sing serenades in verse and in prose. You will have many rivals. Understand the competitors, but still.
- Svetlana. - Murmured the captain. - I - okay, fine. Here - I slept like a log. Alla can confirm - so patients do not sleep. So sleep healthy and whole people.
- I confirm Svetlan. He slept as taught - calmly, deeply and steadily. According to it, you could not tell that he walked under the Reaper to hammer. - Streltsov hid a pleased smile.
- John. - Svetlana sat on a stone chair next to the bed. - I hope, really hope that this is so. You already started a companion yourself? - She reached out to a friend who was sitting on a stone chair pyzhaku and he hesitantly reached towards his foot. - What is the polite! - I admired Streltsov. - I thought he was scared and uskachet, and he decided to say hello. Well hello. - She gently squeezed between two fingers foot pyzhaka. Tom liked it and he jumped Svetlana shoulder. - Yeah. He likes it, it appears to sit on his shoulders. Straight Egyptian cat. - Svetlana behavior pyzhaka clearly liked. - Pretty! - Pyzhaku she held his other hand and he put his foot in it, as if fixing affection. - Well, if you like, sit. If we
pyzhaki to you, John, indifferent, maybe you do here in the full rate. I'm here and I want to see a lot. With Eva I have said, Rex, too. I was invited into the female clans, go here now with Alla, help Chakwas. I see that you are quite oklemalsya. - She ran her hand over his forehead Shepard. - Not hot. OK, have a rest. Today, you have a kind of a day of rest. I know not usidish. Eat only tightly. - She got up and walked out, followed by Selezneva.
After breakfast rations, Shepard went to the halls. Mordin going into a military camp, he became interested in training kroganskih soldiers and he apparently intended to collect more material for some of their scientific research. Eva Rex retired to the throne room and discussing something from the category of major cases planning. Yavik left to guard the soldiers, decided to communicate with existing experienced warriors. Sitting down at the stone table, the captain opened instrumentron and plunged into work. Having reports from teammate, he grasped himself, one of them where he was and what busy, convinced that with them all in order. Service monitoring and related services cruiser frigate sent their reports and notifications about changes of the situation in the star system. So far, everything was normal. After a few minutes Shepard completely absorbed in the work and did not interrupt her until evening.
- John, you're not having dinner? - Svetlana came back, put both hands on the shoulders of her husband. - Earned. Well, that although dinner is not yet started. - She gently pulled Shepard behind. - Come on, I made you eat.
- Svetlana ... - Shepard said somewhat reproachfully. - You do not eat itself. Once Alla is allowed?
- Alla plenty of work has appeared in the female clans. Well, I otuda kicked out, they said I in my "position" should beware and plenty of rest. I did not know that, too, such kroganok views on women's behavior during pregnancy. Especially Eva insisted. What do I do it? I had to obey. But I talked with the soldiers and workers-krogan, removed many of the issues with broken hearts. So now I have here something like a carte blanche - I can go anywhere, anytime. As part of general decency, of course. Come on. - She resolutely forced Shepard to get up close instrumentron and follow him.
In the room where the captain lived, it was tidied up. Pyzhak sitting on a chair, flashing his glazёnkami and felt was sverhdovolen.
- I fed him. Intelligently eat this citizen. - Svetlana said with a smile, summing Shepard to the serving table. - Pete here in suhomyatku rations. It is necessary to feed your pet. I cooked. Sit down and eat.
- I sit down and I will be there, Svetlana, if you too will sit down and eat. Thanks, of course, for the tidy my den, but you ...
- I was pleased to do it, besides I need to go and something to be busy, John. On the cruiser shield me from everything literally, shaking me like a Chinese vase over. I understand everything, as far as at all possible for me to understand, but idle and do nothing - it is certainly not in my nature. Alla has no objection, he said that the tone should be maintained. Karin and Chloe also do not mind. So I tidied up. Little. - Svetlana sat down next to Shepard, put her hand on his shoulder, pressed. - I am glad that I can at least now be near you. You know, I got tired of sitting on the boat, even if it is his own, and to know that you're around, but on another ship. And I need a shuttle just to see you vyave. I do not like to use the commander's privileges, although I Titov and Seleznev as naplanirovali privileges ... It is a shame and it is not convenient. You are eating, eat. Saturates. And then you'll feed with a spoon, you're my insatiable. - Svetlana kissed her husband's crown. - Eat. I've already eaten, and I insisted Alla snack in between times. Habit.
- You, the Light can not be casually. - Captain has postponed most of its portions on a clean plate. - Eat. You need to have for themselves and another for two.
- Okay. - Svetlana took the spoon and began to eat. - If you insist ... Then I'll tell you that today I was able to see and understand.
- Yeah. No Svetlana. You'll do it later. - Shepard poured into a clean glass of herbal infusion. - And now you sing without a word. Lada?
- Okay, Joe. - Svetlana broke off and began to quickly wield a spoon and fork, apparently, slowly release the time for talking. After eating, she looked pleased, as John quickly gathers and washes the dishes. - Just today I had a few female clans ...
A story like Shepard. He did not get to the heart as much enjoyed the opportunity to hear and see his girlfriend is not on the video, but so close at hand. Svetlana was a pleasure to experience this pleasure, and she, too, was pleased with the opportunity to be close to the main other. She warmed the idea that children are happy to be near his father, with my dad. Yes, Allah has convinced her that the pregnancy is proceeding ahead of schedule and is now on her personal calendar, not the fourth, and even fifth or sixth month. It is possible that Svetlana herself asked myself a schedule and a pace - she did not want to step back from the real commander of the work is very much for a long time, and if the front is not six, and only four months of pregnancy, it is still better than to be deprived of the opportunity to work in full force within the next six months.
Shepard sat down next to his wife at the general store, continuing to listen to her story. Svetlana was accustomed, he rarely looks at it, but always listens carefully and beautifully reads her condition.
Next Day Shepard dedicated communication with Eve and Rex. With the leader of the clan long discussed the neutralization of charges set on the planet turians. Reconnaissance lizards locations surveyed bookmark charges, several krogan managed to neutralize the charges themselves, but the two or three largest dared not touch. After talking with the experts of the frigate, Shepard enlisted their support and agreed on their arrival and working with Rex. It was decided to accept the specialists in the morning in the main camp of the clan, and place the next day after arrival, when they finished the preparatory work to begin demining of these charges. Concluding the conversation, Rex shared his concerns:
- Your byvshechelovecheskaya organization "Cerberus" is trying to penetrate the planet. I am convinced that John, having learned about the disarmament of several major charges, they are exactly try to interfere with us to complete this work. As servants of the Reapers, tserberovtsy not interested in the growth of power and influence krogan. The planet is too great, and this haskolyudyam its conditions ... to put it mildly - accustomed. There we have here is one the largest and the size and power of the bomb charge and my intelligence Clan reported not so long ago - "Cerberus" will do everything to put the bomb under his control. We keep it weak forces. Alas. Too many husks erupt in different parts of our planet. - Rex did not hide before Shepard problems. - Okay. Eva is waiting, she, too, have something to talk to you. - The leader of the clan sat down at the table, pulled up to his screen instrumentrona. - A lot of work. And with the documents - in particular. Sometimes I feel ... as you people call it ... a bureaucrat, a head clerk. Go, John.
Coming from Rex Shepard saw was in a hurry to meet Eve. Kroganka was something excited:
- I'm sorry, John. I am troubled by Rex, to give me more time ... After you've given the vaccine and krogan managed to call for the destruction of Kalros Reaper ... we have too much has changed in the community. And I, too, must change. All women-shamans krogan clans have to change. We have provided information about treatment too many krogan from genophage to external kroganskie colony. From there it will go to small groups and individual krogan krogan. We, John, try to have received the vaccine more than you can krogan. - Eva finally found a suitable empty room, took the first inside and gestured. - I ... I have to tell you what did not tell anyone. - She closed the door, conceding just becoming a constant companion pyzhaka captain. - I do not know, Does race survive krogan in this war against the Reapers, or will die, but the very fact that we are no longer dependent on genophage and now women kroganki safely become pregnant, nurturing and less easily give birth, knowing that they are healthy and normal, and most importantly - live many children ... it is very expensive. - Eva-Baqarah sat down on the bench, made a gesture with his hand. - Do not wait, John, sit down.
Shepard sat down on the bench next to the shaman. Baqarah briefly told the captain about what happens in the female clans, and that has not had time to get to documents and files.
- I find it difficult to talk about it, John. We women clans, already knew that not all salarians - bad. Many salarians did not agree with the policy pursued dalatressami. Many people have tried to help us. We had, of course, give them this opportunity - when you are seriously ill and prospects you are not the most optimistic, when you know that she can die and will die, most likely, your unborn child, much is perceived quite differently, very much. Men-krogan given it easier, they are not so focused on internal, personal world, as we are, women kroganki. And we ... This obsession with hard both physically and even more - psychologically. It so happened that I myself survived the experiments conducted by one salarians. His name I will not mention - he still has died, I know exactly, and I have proof of his physical death. I do not want to be affected by the failure of the fate of his relatives, and especially - children. We all - the living and always doomed to make mistakes. He had already paid with death for what I only survived twenty kroganok who agreed to participate in his experiments cure genophage. It was ... difficult. Allow me to omit many medical and personal details, do not articulate them. I'm after the only survivor, was very weak. And then after all krogan-men were not so significant and serious even geographically separated from the female clans. This salarian ... he barely escaped death - so our men were unhappy deaths kroganok. They can understand, they wanted to extend themselves in children and genophage genophage ... do not give to do. Rarely a Croghan man could tell him ... the child survived and lived for more than a year. Year - this is a very critical time for us was, krogan. If the child survived for a year - it was possible to hope that he would survive and continue. Not only hope, but also believe. And me ... I was later, after I survived, he offered to become a shaman. Kroganki, too, died in the set - and during pregnancy and during labor, and subsequently - from exhaustion ... For many reasons, died. I was able to get stronger, it was not easy ... for a few months. Then I often think that is about to die. Probably, it is considered a kind of test, which is held every krogansky shaman before the dedication. So I offered only one test - I had to survive in the cave. Just survive. I did not know what kind of test. And when I found out - I had only one thought - to get out of this cave as soon as possible. - Baqarah paused. - In general, I agreed to the test. I was given some food, water and walled. Light, sounds - at least. A day or two I reached without any problems. It was difficult to navigate in the dark, I tried to move less, and took care of the air force. Time flowed in a special way, I have not always been able to say exactly how much time passed from the moment overwhelmed me completely out of the cave. Sometimes it seemed to me that it took several hours, sometimes - that a year has passed. When I was there, out of the cave, he climbed ... It turned out that it took only seven days. Week in a row your time, John. And I got out there because after three days beginning with their bare hands to dig out the course. I was not sure even that digging in the right direction - with equal success, I could not dig out the clock and deep into the hill, where there was this cave. I still do not understand, I do not know exactly what helped me then to determine in total darkness in the right direction, and time after time to keep digging. At first I was digging with his bare hands, they scraped and bleeding, although kroganskaya leather ... quite hard and is usually - not sensitive to such stimuli .... Then I dug out some crystal, when I felt her, I realized that he would replace me ... as you people call it, the shovel. And then I dug crystal. It spared me many hours of work and a lot of air, because when you dig, you begin to breathe more often and need to balance the cost of work and the result of this work. I did not know that then, digging, trying to get out, I found the quality required shaman clan. I did not even know she was pregnant, John. And then, when I climbed out and took the initiation ... I gave birth to a dead child. Prematurely. I could not hear it before the deadline. And then, when I gave birth to him ... I felt that I really became a true shaman. Female shaman. Position kroganok ... has always been very difficult. And when we, krogan genophage applied to women it has been particularly difficult. For male krogan difficult to explain that you can not become a maternity machine that once again you give birth to a dead or sick child, who soon dies, you need a lot of time just to recover and prepare for a new copulation and new pregnancy, which increasingly is ... to put it mildly, problematic. A male krogan were killed in the fighting, killed in combat. The number of clans declined steadily. Indeed, many male krogan become mercenaries, were leaving to fight, shoot, fight not for the interests of race or clan, but simply because here at Tuchanka, they did not find a decent application. They are, to put it simply, there was no need, John. And we, women kroganki ... had to stay here. Few of us ventured Tuchanka long to leave, to go out into the world, one, maximum - ten were living at the stations and on other planets. It would be easier to know what to krogan genophage operates only within the planet. Perhaps such knowledge would have caused a mass exodus and krogan, having moved, to have found freedom from genophage, but when it became clear that Croghan carries it in itself and it is not possible to remove the curse from the spirit and the body ... It's many, many krogan shattered. Men became insatiable in his desire to continue their family, frequent attacks on women's clan camp. Then we women had to learn not only the purely household, but also the art of war. We were too long to realize that any attack we must respond to a devastating blow, often - resulting in the death of the attacker. For a long time, John, kroganok always tried and severely punished for the fact that they dared to kill or maim krogan attacked them. I know, in your human world ... many, as you call it, the countries was the notion of "self-defense". Maybe our society was not profitable to protect the weak, the strong striker who dared to deprive the most expensive - of life. May be. But as a result kroganki became warriors. - Eve paused. - It's complicated. When you give life, difficult to get used to the idea of taking away the life of normativity. After all, the instinct of procreation - one of the strongest. And he can only oppose a very solid personality. And most krogan then have tried to simply survive. Many fled from the planet, trying to realize themselves. But where can realize itself-foot lizard under a half ton weight? Only where it will need physical strength and ability to quickly and accurately shoot. And those men krogan, who stayed here on Tuchanka, very rarely could afford to do science, culture and production. War led to the disappearance of many clans ... Now that genophage defeated when more and more krogan feel healthy ... We will, John, an opportunity to realize themselves in a new world. Probably, we should understand first of all that we are - a single nation, a single race. Previously, we thought that the only thing uniting us, the most effective - is that any Croghan any gender was infected and sentenced genophage. And now we will try to unite in the fight against the Reapers and their accomplices. Let's try to be a race of warriors. Who knows how to fight, fight and love ... - Baqarah again silent for a few minutes - not because of the belligerent, most krogan did not really do not know how to, but because we now have a future. I know how to look at your wife, John, male krogan. And I must apologize to you for their behavior. They can be often seen pregnant kroganok, but we knew that most of the children die before the birth of the child - during the birth of the child - birth. They have lost faith in the sanctity of a pregnant woman. They began to consider a woman ... utilitarian or something. At the level of maternity machine. After many attempts to do to conceive, carry and give birth to a live and viable child. This can only fully understand a woman. Men it is for different reasons not understood perfectly given evolution. I do not know why it is so arranged that, John. But I saw how eagerly looking at your wife male krogan. They knew that Svetlana will certainly give birth to a healthy and strong children. Just because it is - not Croghan. This ... straining thought, John. I do not condone male krogan. I've already apologized to Svetlana for their behavior and now I apologize to you
, her husband and a friend of the main. - Baqarah paused for a moment, gathered his thoughts. - Now ... krogan begin to settle down. And kroganki - too. They no longer feel the constant objects of known harassment. They can now choose and krogan will have to prove not only their physical strength but also its ... intelligence, or something. This gives us the krogan, the ability to believe that we are now just survive, unless, of course, do not let us make another stupidity. Among these stupid things I especially would highlight our disunity, John. We - like a single race, but we have plenty of different scales clans, who are constantly competing with each other. And it is - only on krogan homeworld. We continue to teeter on the brink of extinction. Continue. - Severe mental pain evident in her voice Bakar. - I find it difficult to talk to krogankami even more difficult - with krogan. Hard to like that, at once, to believe that now genophage over us no power, there's no need to kill each other, now we need to look for a job, rather than death in battle or in another ... mezhusobitse. Difficult it. But I know, that should do it. And, John, I'm telling you this is one of the first luxury to me reasonable. I agreed to the marriage to Rex. And I'm ... pregnant by him. I hope very much hope that this news will help to unite the clans better than any treaty. If a clan is one, he is strong and it will inevitably join the others. I hope that after a few months we will become one people, John, a single race. Race, recover from genophage and are now obliged to get rid of such a dangerous and powerful enemies, however, it is undoubtedly the Reapers and their henchmen. I know, John, you destroy, destroy and be destroyed husks. I know that many krogan Reapers too ... pay. And because among the husks will you and your teammate, your otryadovtsam meet former krogan ... and ... association with members of other races. I'm going to help Rex unite krogan race for the sake of a common future, for the sake of victory over the reapers, and for post-war peaceful and constructive life. Rex promised me that he would send an important part of efforts to implement the plan. - Eve paused. - I'm going to leave soon, to visit many krogan clans, tell about what she was a witness. I know that I leave as early as this evening. And I want to tell you before you leave, John, now you have to Tuchanka not only friends, but also a friend. I want you to consider me his friend, John. And we know that Urodnot Baqarah always be happy to see and talk with you. I am proud to meet you and your colleagues, John. And I will talk about them, about you so many krogan, because your history is now tightly connected with the history of my race and my people. Because krogan no longer closed in the narrow world of their parent planet. They can be not only warriors and guards, but also engineers, scientists, production workers. They will find themselves in a variety of areas. - Kroganka rummaged in his bag. - It's - the same crystal, by which I got out of the cave immured. Let it be you now have. He helped me, you helped all krogan and deserve to have this crystal. - It has invested in Shepard palm plate. - I'm sorry, John. I have to go, I want to speak and to say goodbye to Mordin and Yavikom. Until now I do not feel too comfortable, because it expressed distrust Protheans, not knowing how they are perfect. I personally hope to again apologize to Yavika. He can not forgive me - it's his right. But I still ask. - Baqarah stood. Following the captain stood up. - Thank you, John. You have changed not only the krogan, you have changed me. And now I will do everything to krogan become a single people, a single race. I'll do what I, female-kroganke is available. I'll speak. I'll tell you. I will explain and testify. Not only as a shaman of the clan, but also as a woman. Once again, John, thank you. - Bakara, a plumb Shepard easy bow out.
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