Liara was trembling with enthusiasm in her small lab and the excitement ran through her in waves as she tried to calm her breathing. The human was so easy to control. She winked with her eyelashes and the Commander leaped for her and did everything she wanted to do her. Liara had offered her to interpret the visions for the cryptanalyst given by Shiala.
Shepard had immediately agreed and Liara had their brains connected with each other. These impressions, she trembled again as she thought of them. It was amazing.
She would like to take Shepard back to her base for investigations and never let her go. The human seemed to have a sense for the Protheans, something in her let her not go crazy by contact with a beacon. Liara had to figure it out absolutely. Even if it meant she had to play this charade a little longer.
After she let the mind meld regretfully faded, she had to be alone because otherwise everyone would have seen the excitement and interest. Luckily there were no other Asari on board, otherwise she couldn´t have told the lie with "For me it's exhausting because I had to hold the connection."
Shepard had sent her to the infirmary, where she was examined by Dr. Chakwas. The doctor could not find anything, but Liara told about some wounds from the last fight and got some MediGel.
Now she leaned on her desk and allowed herself a cold smile. Liara contacted the administrator of Noveria, Bel Anoleis and relayed the statement as the Shadow Broker, by which it was not allowed for any ship with a Quarian on board to dock at Noveria. If the situation cannot be avoided, the Quarian had to be under guard for the entire time.
Then she ordered Aria to Noveria. She suspected that Aria knew exactly what her mother wanted there. She had spent nearly two hundred years in the shadow of Benezia and Liara was certain that she succeeded in learning her secrets.
Now she would only need to persuade Shepard that she could accompany her, but that was one of Liara's lesser worries.
In the cargo hold Garrus waited patiently for Chief William to finally leave for the night. Ashley was, especially for a human, a pleasant interlocutor, thought the Turian, but she was just too militarily in her views for him. He nodded to her as she went to the elevator and then waited, before he again hacked into the database of Normandy. He then established a connection to a weapon dealer on Noveria.
Garrus was floating on a wave. At the moment it was exhilarating for him and Wrex and even if they do not always agree, and certainly do not have the same goals with their credits, their collaboration was incredibly profitable. Garrus did everything what dealt with talking, selling and calibrating and Wrex had often just stood there looking angry.
The problem with Noveria was the safety regulations. There existed prisons in the galaxy where one could more easily break out than in Noveria in. Moreover, one should not get caught there. Noveria was almost a direct subordinate to the Shadow Broker, and with him Garrus didn´t want to have anything to do.
Especially not after his experiences with Saren. Moreover Garrus knew some smugglers who had tried smuggling on Noveria and then he saw them again reappear as a beggar in the lower districts of Omega. Occasionally they lacked some body parts, internal or external, and they all would rather have died than being alive. For these reasons the dealer on Noveria would have to have Shepard bring the package through Noverias customs but as Garrus knew that with the Commander, that would be no problem.
Tali woke up to the silent alarm in her suit. She slept in a small, secure quarantine area in the rear cargo hold. Since she does not trust anyone, especially not the Asari, the area was equipped with multiple alarm systems. She wanted to sit, as a black shoe was put on her. The heel squeezed painfully through the metal just above her heart and made it hard for her to breathe.
Tali felt something being injected into the tube system of her suit and the effects were surprising. She was instantly tired even as she tried to fight against it. An incredible pair of brilliant blue eyes as intense as she had never seen before appeared, and Tali got lost in them. She heard a pleasant voice that told her gently to let go, to the embrace eternity. Tali wanted to listen to that voice, it sounded so pure, so beautiful, but then a sharp pain shot through her and everything went dark as she lost consciousness.
Liara heard the alarm, that the environmental suit of the Quarian triggered and suppressed an angry outcry. She didn´t wanted to kill Tali. First, she wanted to know what she knew, but Tali was allergic to the anesthetic. As footsteps approached their position, Liara pulled back and merged due to her clothes in the back of the cargo hold with the shadows.
Doctor Chakwas would find no trace in the Quarian´s body. If Tali should survive this attack, she would have no memory of Liara's visit. It would be only part of a nightmare for her. Liara's only regret was that the Quarian passed out too soon.
