This is a side story from the Fit to Burst Series. This one happens a short time after the end of Fit to Try. Nihlus found some info on Cira's parents and sent it to her. Cira agreed to help design and build the Normandy but she wants to locate her parents first. Chapters probably won't be very long at all as this will just be a short little story. Enjoy.


There wasn't much info in what Nihlus sent to her but it was enough for Cira to be able to really begin her investigation. Mostly it was a complicated web of money transactions between bank accounts based all over the galaxy. Accounts that would have taken her years to access without Spectre authorization. There where gaps in the web, most likely where some other form of payment had been used aside from credits, but those pieces she could put together when she came to them. Closer examination of the web led her to the planet Vahn Conom and to a shipping company run by a Turian man named Dygiris. She was in a quiet little room now, waiting to talk to Dygiris. The Salarian receptionist kept peeking at her over half moon spectacles while pretending to be reading some kind of science magazine but Cira could feel the daggers shooting from the woman's pupils every time she glanced up. It made her antsy and she struggled to keep still in her plush armchair, her eyes stubbornly glued to the mundane pictures of scenery adorning the pale green walls. The fact that she might finally get some answers as to her parent's whereabouts only added to her nervousness. The steady increase in her back account attested to them still being alive, but they hadn't contacted her since before she was enrolled in Hailroy Academy. They hadn't even tried to reach her when the school was attacked. Cira could have died in that attack and her parents wouldn't know the difference. The thought brought cold and bitter tears to her eyes and she barely held them back as another Salarian woman stepped into the room and informed her that Dygiris was ready to see her.


"As you know I just run a simple shipping company. There is no record of any business transactions with a Carlo or Mira Roselli in my log book, so I'm very sorry but I can't help you."

Speaking with Dygiris hadn't been helpful. Cira had not been allowed to actually see his business logs so she had to take his word for it. If there were any personas that her parents may have used, she didn't know them, but still, Dygiris's name had come up multiple times when following the money trail from Nihlus so she knew that he was connected to her parents somehow. Maybe their transactions weren't in the official log book for a reason. Cira thanked him for his time and he walked her back out to the waiting room, where she took her leave. Maybe her parents had used a persona when dealing with Dygiris or maybe they hadn't but Cira had to see the log book for herself. After she left she ran a diagnostic of the building's security. It was well protected, but there weren't many buildings that she couldn't get into one way or another.

Later that night, Cira approached one of the outside vents on the building. She had taken a look at it earlier and knew that her little spool of Sizzle Wire (not the official name for it but it had a nice ring to it), would easily cut through. She pressed the wire along the perimeter of the grate and touched it with the little gun. The wire glowed blue and sank into the metal until the grate fell forward into Cira's waiting hands. She set the grate down to the side and crawled into the vent. It would be a bit of a climb to Dygiris's office but she could manage. She kept an eye out for anything in the vents that would trigger an alarm, but it seemed like Dygiris hadn't expected anyone to crawl in through the vents so for now she was ok. It took her about 25 minutes to reach the office. She peered down into the room, and seeing no one, pushed the grate open. At least she didn't have to cut through this one. From her scan of the building earlier, she knew that there wasn't much security inside the office. The console on the desk was protected, as were the locking filing cabinets and a safe in the corner. For now she would just take a look at the official log book which was kept in the second desk drawer on the left. She hacked into the camera systems and put the office cameras on a loop of the last 10 minutes recorded before dropping down into the room. After slipping on some gloves, she pulled open the drawer and pulled out the log book. She flipped through it page by page but did not see her parent's names and the few names that stood out to her, Habilin Jessop, Feria Cout, Nassana Dantius, Braytus Rhara, made no sense as personas, though she didn't really know much about her parents to judge what kind of name they would use. Still, the names had stood out so she wrote them down and filed them away for further investigation.

Next she examined the safe, the decryption was very complicated and it took her a while to get into it but she was able to open it successfully. There were credit chits in there and some more business ledgers that still did not contain her parent's names. She figured this ledger housed some of the less legal transactions that the shipping company undoubtedly took part in. But she wasn't here to investigate the company itself so she put the ledger back in its place and relocked the safe. The file cabinets were next. Cracking the locks on them was not nearly as difficult as the safe and in no time at all she was leafing through file after file, again, writing down any names that popped out at her. When she had finished she ran one more scan of the room to make sure she hadn't missed anything. This time her scan picked up another signal; one that it hadn't caught when she had scanned the building from outside. She followed the signal to the corner of the room, on the floor. A quick inspection revealed that the carpet could be lifted up from the corner, revealing a small trap door. Cira lifted it up and underneath was another safe. An examination revealed that this safe would take a great deal of time to get open and even if she was successful, there would be a signal sent out to the building security notifying them that someone was trying to get in to it. She assumed that Dygiris would give the guards some kind of code so they knew it was him, but they knew that he was not here now so they would know that it was an intruder. With her current equipment, she could jam the signal for a while, hopefully long enough for her to look at whatever was inside and get out before security arrived. She began hacking the door, picking her way carefully through multiple layers of codes and firewalls put together to keep whatever was in there safe from even the most determined thief. But Cira had to know what was in there and why it was so well guarded so she picked away at the defenses, taking almost 45 minutes before she finally cut through the final layer and the safe was now unlocked. Cira set up her signal jammer before pulling the door open and snatching the contents. A small book, about 3"x5". Cira pulled open the cover and read the name written on the first page.

Jarot Rosen

Now that was a persona that her parent's might have used. Cira tucked the book into a pocket and closed the safe back. If Dygiris didn't know that there was an intruder tonight, he would know the next time he looked for that book. Cira's jammer was down now and she knew that it was only a matter of time before the guards arrived so she hopped up onto the desk and jumped for the vent, just barely managing to grasp the edge and pull herself in, lowering the grate into place as a turian guard burst into the room. Cira didn't wait to see if he realized where she had disappeared to, but silently made her way back to the outside vent.

When she crawled out she heard shouting. There were security guards doing a sweep of the grounds around the building. Cira sprinted toward the next building, keeping to the shadows and activating her cloaking device as she went. If she got out of there quickly, she would be fine. As she turned the corner though, a guard, who apparently was smart enough to think to check the surrounding buildings, spotted her.

"Hey you!"

Cira didn't stop; she ran right up to him and knocked the gun out of his hands before he could even aim it at her. He grabbed at her, but she ducked under his arms and spun around behind him, kicking at the backs of his knees so he collapsed forward, then jumping onto his back, pulling a knife from her sleeve and jamming it into the exposed flesh at his neck. A gurgling, choking sound erupted from his throat and blood sprayed from his mouth as he tried to scream. Cira jumped off of him and darted away, knowing that he would be dead in a minute and not wanting to be around when his buddies found him.

She had found what she had hoped for. Another clue toward her parents and as badly as she wanted to stop now and read what was in that tiny book, she had to wait until she was safe and sound back on her ship.