The Blue Spirits

Prologue

Her friends back home were never going to believe this, Giestla was serving on a ship with a Justicar on it! Well, in truth the Justicar was only staying with them till they arrived at her destination so serving might be too strong a word for it but what did that matter? She was the only one of her friends to ever actually meet a Justicar?

Giestla hadn't spoken to her yet, with those icy blue eyes and that emotionless face and with how tall she was she had been a little intimidated by her but she had been slowly working up the courage to ask her for a quick picture on her Omni-Tool in order to show everyone when she was back home again. Oh, Valix was going to turn purple with envy.

Her console beeped in front of her and Giestla blushed as she remembered that she was still on duty. There had been a sudden burst of gamma radiation of off the starboard bow and Giestla quickly saved the data for further analysis later, it wasn't likely to be anything important as there was plenty of random bursts of radiation in deep space but her orders were to catalogue everything.

A lot of maidens her age were expected to be shacking their asses off in clubs, joining up with mercenary bands or joining up with a city state militia or in the Republic Navy. Serving on a purely science ship out in deep space, examining anomalies and cataloguing different stars was considered something a Matron would do, a nice steady sensible job not something for a Maiden, who should be out and enjoying all the richness of life in her wild younger days.

But Giestla had always loved the stars and the science behind it and who cared if it was a job for matrons and she was the only maiden on the ship, it was what she enjoyed doing. When she had been offered a position on the ship it had seemed to good to be true but her essay on solar mechanics had been so good that it had apparently caught the eye of someone high up and the job has been thrown at her.

The doors to the bridge slid open and the captain and the justicar walked on, the captain had apparently been a commando well into her matron days and she ran the ship as firmly as a military one, it had taken awhile for Giestla to get used to it considering she had no intention of ever becoming a solider but it was something that she had grown to appreciate it as she had worked under her.

"Attention everyone, short range sensors have detected something two hours from our current position and they haven't been able to make out what it is, results are inconclusive and so we are falling back on general order one. Ladies, we're going in." The captain turned to face the Justicar who was standing tall and silent. "Justicar Samara has kindly agreed to allow us to make this slight deviation, considering we are already close to her own destination."

"Flight Mistress, take us in." The captain ordered and the ship's pilot responded and Giestla felt the ship turn ever so slightly under her feet as the Captain took her seat and the Justicar stood at her side, so still that she might have been one of the statues in the temple that had been dedicated to Athame back home on Thessia.

Giestla glanced between her console and the Justicar, trying to find her courage to speak to her, for the rest of the journey when suddenly Samara turned to look at her and Giestla blushed and turned her attention fully back on to her console. Thankfully, the Justicar seemed to take some pity on her and did not move from where she was standing.

They eventually arrived at the anomaly that the sensors had detected and Giestla could say with confidence that she had never seen anything like it before in her entire life, it was like...a tear. A tear in space, like space was fabric that had been ripped down the middle and there was something deeply wrong, she could feel it just by looking at it.

And she didn't want to look at it anymore so she turned her attention away from the view screen and focused her gaze on her own console. "Specialist Giestla, what can you tell me about...whatever that is." The Captain asked and for the first time since Giestla had joined the crew she sounded uncertain, which did not make her feel any better.

"I...I'm sorry Captain, I'm not sure what to tell you. Whatever it is it does not have a gravitational pull nor a center of mass, it does seem to be emitting something but if it is radiation then it's not any sort of radiation that's been catalogued before." She looked up from her console and turned to look at the Captain. "Ma'am, whatever it is it's not like any anomaly on record. Suggest we proceed with extreme caution."

"Agreed, Flight Mistress back us up a bit." They waited, but the ship did not move. "Flight Mistress Sheol?"

"Captain, the engine is not responding. The Mass Effect core is not responding and neither is the faster than light drive, thrusters are cold." Sheol called back as she worked intensely on her controls. "We're completely stranded, but there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the engines themselves. I just commenced a damage report and they should be functioning perfectly, they just...aren't."

"Captain! There was just a massive burst of...of whatever that tear has been emitting!" Giestla called out at her console began to beep rapidly, her hands blurring over the holo console as she catalogued the unknown radiation. Suddenly, the entire ship jerked so violently that Giestla was thrown forward and she smashed her forehead against her console.

The rest of the world seemed so far away as she slumped back in her chair, everyone's voice was so very faint and echoed like they were yelling in a cave. She could just make out the captain yelling if they had the engines back on line and to launch a distress beacon and then all of sudden their was a noise, like a shriek in her ears and the pain in her head got a thousand times world and the whole world seemed to be shaking apart around her as the entire world went black.

She was awoken by a hand on her shoulder, shaking her awake. The first thing she saw when she opened her eyes were the icy blue orbs of Justicar Samara starring down at her. One of the metal decorations she had worn on her head was gone and the other was cracked in half, a thin blue line of blood was leaking from just under her eye. "We must go now, we are abandoning ship. Can you walk?"

Giestla know what all of the words meant and she knew that she should answer but for some reason the words would not come, her head felt so very light. The Justicar said nothing and merely slide her arms underneath of Giestla and picked her up as though she weighed nothing. Hm, she had heard that Justicars had access to biotic powers that only they could use but she didn't know that super strength had been included into the mix.

The bridge was on fire, odd that she hadn't noticed it before. It was so black and thick that it was as chocking as it was blinding and the Justicar commanded her to close her eyes and Giestla had been raised to know better than to argue with a Justicar. Her eyes slid shut and she almost felt like she was back in her mother's arms as she was carried away and the air became a tiny bit easier to breath.

She had thought that they had been making their way to the escape pods but when she opened her eyes again she found that the Justicar had been carrying her down to the airlock, a dozen other Asari were waiting for them and Giestla knew all of them but she didn't see the captain and she didn't see the Flight Mistress and she didn't see Doctor Naylaa, where were they?

The opening mechanism had been fused shut by the heat of crash landing on...wherever they were. Security Chief V'Donns came forward with her biotic aura shinning around her and she thrust her hands outward and a blast of pure force ripped the airlock doors away from the hull and a warm, bright light flooded the ship.

It had been so bright that it had forced Giestla to shut her eyes again as Samara carried her out of the ship and rested her on the ground. She felt so very tired that opening her eyes took so much effort, above her the sky was blue and the sun was bright and yellow and the feeling of wet grass underneath her body as she laid felt so very good.

She could hear her crew members and the Justicar arguing about something but she didn't understood why, it was so warm and so calm and so peacefully and all she wanted to do was go back to sleep. A little ways away, she could hear the sound of thundering footsteps off in the distance, something so very loud and it was getting closer.

She forced her eyes open and saw people dressed in shiny metal suits, she remembered the first time her Mother had brought her to the museum in Serrice and they had seen the weapons and armor that Asari had used during the Clan Wars and the suits the people were wearing reminded her of them, and they were riding strange creatures with long faces and four legs. Two of the people were wearing shiny white metal armor with white cloaks, the rest were wearing crimson and gold armor with red cloaks.

Giestla's eyes slid shut again and that was when the shouting started, the tongue that the locals were using was strange and harsh and there was the sound of metal being drawn and moments later gunfire sounded out and she could sense the biotics being used, screams and curses filled the air and Giestla felt something warm and wet sliding down her neck.

And then, all the noise had fell away and Giestla was left with nothing but peace. She would help her crew members, once she woke up. All would be well, she was certain. She just needed a quick nap.

End of the Prologue

So, the idea for this came from the deleted content from Lair of the Shadow Broker where apparently Samara and a group of Asari crash landed on Earth and saved Shakespeare, It was deleted for some reason but I thought it was an interesting idea but what if instead, they landed on Westeros and had to interact with the ASOIAF characters.

So, here we are.

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DiscordantSymphony