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Chapter 20
The blue memories
… Liara is just gone out, Aethyta gets up in a hurry, turning the comm off. She is looking for Karin's hand, as she squeezes it, gently draws Karin to herself, saying ...
A: Oh, come here, Sugary! I need to hug you, right away!
Karin gets up smiling. She picks Aethyta in her arms, staying silent for few minutes. Karin clasps Aethyta tenderly, holding her closer, while she starts speaking to Aethyta with low voice, in loving tone ...
K: Liara's stories are very engaging! So, did the good old Wrex has reminded you your father, by chance?
Aethyta sighs, while a veil of longing catches her eyes, and a touch of bitterness can easily guess in the tone of her voice ...
A: Well, yeah! You know, to be honest Wrex looks quite a lot like my dad! Though … ha, ha my father was much more bawdy than him! In terms of bad-mouth I mean. Yes, but ... oh, shit! It's a sob story, Sugar Thing, and I don't think you should know about!
The Karin answer jumps out from her heart, so sweet as immediate …
K: You know, Thyta ... sometimes I wonder, how can I love you so much! How can I feel so close to you, so deeply in tune with you ... even though I know so little about you?!
Aethyta needs to regain her breath as she collects Karin's face into her hands. She caresses Karin's hair and cheeks, looking at her intently. She pierces Karin in deep, with the charm of her night-dark blue eyes. Aethyta's voice becomes sweeter and sweeter, as she is talking with Karin …
A: Hey, my Sugary! I would bet that, you know about me everything you need to know! First, you know that I feel intimately connected to you, and you fill me with joy! Secondly, you know you make me feel a spate of emotions in such an intensity which not came to light in me long since.
Aethyta paused before saying ...
A: Mmh, thirdly, you know that you make me feel fucking alive and important, so ... fine as it didn't happen for centuries! Finally, you know that ... I love you, Karin just as you are, and ... in my life, it can't be nothing but ... you! So, I guess ... you really know about me a lot more things than you should know about!
Karin's lips stretches up in a slight satisfied smirk, while she is touching the Aethyta's cheek, saying …
K: Oh Sweetie! I've always wondered, how Liara can be such a sweet girl. Well, here I see! That dear girl is a chip off the old block!
Aethyta smiles back, looking for Karin's lips. She slowly brushes them with hers own, fondling Karin with all the tenderness that Aethyta feels explode wildly into her chest. They kiss long, with passion, with all their souls involved. Aethyta cannot help but tighten Karin against her breast, in silence, confusing every beat, melting together with her, with closed eyes. Suddenly, she would not like to go away ... no more!
Karin feels invade of tenderness. A pleasant heat is totally wrapping around her like a cape. Karin feels alive like she never before. Her heart is bouncing wildly against to Aethyta's. Karin's stomach jumps in her throat, and suddenly Karin would not like to let her go ... no more! Karin's voice is still moved, she cannot hide the thread of concern, the urgent need to share with Aethyta every emotion. So, she says …
K: Hey, I'm serious, I'd really like to know! I think ... if after almost thousand years it still hurt, maybe you should not continue to hide it inwardly. Whatever it is ... you should try to get it out, sharing with someone who loves you, and ... maybe, who might help you to heal!
Aethyta smiles again, then she sits in front of Karin, glancing hungrily inside her eyes. She takes Karin's hands, getting closer, by intertwining between her own fingers. Aethyta's voice is low and touched, her expression becomes serious, when she begins to tell ...
A: Ok, my sweet Doctor! About the past of Krogans many bullshit are still circulating! In the course of time, their bad reputation has been made worse with a lot of lousy crap because of that pack of Blood dickheads, and fed by popular fantasy. All this, has in fact prevented Krogans to earn their second chance!
Of course, in the past, many Krogans have really been fucking sons of bitch! Ha, there is a whole lot, yet! However, I even met quite a lot of Salarians and Turians not less bastards than them! I guess, the truth is there somewhere, just in the middle!
One thing I learned in a thousand, the innocents hide everywhere! I would be not surprised to find some even to hell! Anyway, there was a time when the Krogans tried in every possible way, to make themselves unwelcome wherever they went. They racked up enemies, in the all four corners of the galaxy. However, very few people remember that, they also knew the honor and gratitude. Krogans were brave and loyal soldiers who fought alongside Turians and Salarians with proud, and spirit of sacrifice, and they died by the millions. Well, I know what I say, believe me! I guess, I've always had a privileged point of view on this topic.
You know, when my father was young, he fought in the Rachni wars! So, when I was just a kid, he used to fable me his adventures often! I listened to him totally agog for hours on. Oh, I was very keen of his stories, that's sure! Dad said that, long before he was born, Tuchanka was a beautiful planet, full of woods and forests. Audacious cliffs rising sheer on the blue waters of the ocean.
However, it was even a very wild place! The Krogans had evolved in a hostile and dangerous environment, inhabited by formidable predators. Survival was not at all a small matter! The issue was linked closely to aggressiveness, to the ability to be lethal, killing first to avoid being killed. On Tuchanka, he said, the natural selection was ruthless. Only the more cruel and violent ones could survive.
Through the thousands years, Krogans improved their technology. So, they slowly were able to create weapons of mass destruction, more and more lethal! They used to defend themselves from predators, first. Finally, they became the Tuchanka's dominant species. Fighting predators became boring, it was not enough, anymore! Soon, they discovered that, to gain the power was much more exciting.
Warlords started to emerge, and struggles for supremacy became ruthless. Insomuch cruel, and ruthless enough, to induce Krogans, using nuclear weapons to wipe out their own enemies! Athame sees, they fried their brains! Such a reckless conduct reduced very soon Tuchanka to a pile of smoking rubble! The Krogan survivors were fallout victims.
When all seemed lost, and the still standing ones, fatally destined to inevitable extinction, the Salarians landed back on Tuchanka aboard of spaceships. Their technology was light years more advanced. So, those slimy fucking snakes uplifted the Krogans, teaching them how to create and use the most cutting-edge technology, snatching their friendship, extorting their loyalty by deception.
It was not out of altruism, no sense of civilization, but it was with the one sneaky aim of obtaining their gratitude. Those grimy bastards were plotting to deploy Krogans army in some dirty war, as cannon fodder, trying to save their own stinky asses in the event of need! So, when the Rachni invaded the galaxy, Salarians exploited the proverbial Krogans military skills, and all their bloodthirsty fury in battle.
Ha, what a fuck! Athame could swear! If I were Shepard that Dalatrass would be still flying into space with the mark of my shoe well imprinted in her arse! Anyway, at that time, my father was a young, and daredevil Krogan proud to be still alive in spite of the radioactive miasma of Tuchanka. He was so foolish than eager to repay the Salarians for their invaluable help! But especially with the urgent want to prove all his worth.
So, without a second thought, he joined to the Krogans armies who, were heading against the endless hordes of Rachni soldiers. Papa, couldn't wait of showing off. He was hungry for fame and greatness thirsty for big adventures!
While he was holding me on his knees, by swinging affectionately in his strong arms, he used to say to have fought many battles, and he told me about all the scars he had obtained: each of which had the name of a mission! Oh, if you knew how he was proud of! He never got tired to show them to everyone.
My favorite story was the one when Daddy landed back on a toxic Planet, and he had come across a Rachni queen. My Father was on his own, with a limited supply of weapons and ammo. He had to use all his brain. As well, he got the Queen tired out long, by using his biotic powers. He pushed her to move back toward a cliff.
When the Queen was close enough to the edge, my father activated his powerful biotic barrier, as he ran, blasting away in blood rage. The Queen fired her venom, but my father cut to sideways avoiding the blow. Then, he hit the Queen with the missile launcher, making her fall into the abyss! Of course, for such a fight, he had his best scar to show me!
In any case, as you know, at the end the Rachni were defeated, thanks to the Krogans. After the war, the Krogans became the heroes of the galaxy, for a while! Many of them thought to leave the harsh conditions of their home planet. So, they began to expand in all Systems. Krogans were left free to flourish without any control for decades. This was the big mistake!
Thanks to their considerable fertility, they lived a demographic explosion unexampled. Tuchanka soon became too small and undersized. So, many other Krogans began to colonize the neighboring Planets, even though they were already inhabited.
The Warlords pushed their veterans Battlemasters to conquer new habitats, leveraging the gratitude of the Council's species for the role they had played during the war. A few centuries passed, as the Krogan occupied many Planets, putting a strain on the tolerance and Council's patience.
Meanwhile, my dad had become a formidable soldier forged by the fire of a thousand battles. He was part of the Overlord Kredak's Elite Guard ... a great honor reserved only for the chosen few!
Krogans were at their zenith. Soon they became the strongest race and feared in the entire Galaxy, by dominating every System. The other species left the situation got out of control. Quickly the galactic democracy was seriously threatened because the Krogans were blinded by their own strength, and their minds were obfuscated by their own power. So, they systematically ignored any request to return the occupied Planets to their rightful inhabitants.
Well, just what was the prelude to the Krogan Rebellions! Unfortunately, the threat was woefully and bloody real. The Council felt transgressed and powerless, and it established the "Spectres". Spectres started to accomplish several sabotage missions, with their typical focused assaults to Krogan targets of strategic nature. Entire Colonies has been cut out from the rest of the Galaxy. Soon, the main Krogan HQs turned into piles of rubble.
However, this sort of warfare didn't pay. They only got the result to delay the inevitable. The Council would certainly fall, along with everyone else, if the Turians did not come in aid. They responded to the Krogan threats, by deploying into the battle their powerful army. Naturally, the Krogans had a feral reaction, throwing whole Space Stations or Asteroids against of poor Turian Colonies defenseless!
Despite the casualties, Krogans seemed more and more numerous. The Turians powerful army other hand, suffered heavy losses. Turians would have had no way out, without Salarians intervention. Those same Salarians who uplifted Krogans brought forth a monstrous biological weapon, as cruel as senseless! Precisely of this kind of shit it dealt with! Of course, I'm talking about the "genophage". Such a fucking genetic infection struck the whole Krogan race! The culprits and not, both good and bad, the soldiers and farmers, all adults and kids.
Oh, Athame, what the fuck were you doing that day?! The Krogans reproductive capacity was written off! They became with a no future race, in slow decline, without any identity, eventually made helplessly. The rebellion ended, but with more bloodshed than expected, and the postwar period was a bloody mess! Some Warlords refused to surrender, instead some others went into hiding on the Frontier Systems, dedicated themselves to piracy.
It was around that time that, my father was seriously injured! After Kredax death, Dad had joined to the Warlord Mowrek, continuing to fight, getting honor in battle. However, because of the genophage, Turians folded more and more the Krogans resistance who eventually started to disperse!
The Krogans had found even some Colonies on uninhabited Planets in the Terminus Systems. So, many civilians driven out by the inner Council space evacuated down there, seeking safety. One day, the Turians' Death Squads were patrolling this Colony of Anhur in the Eagle Nebula. The Warlord Mowrek tried to defend it with all remaining soldiers. Those holy arses of Turians attacked from above with their Fighters Craft Flotillas, bombarding the few Krogans survivors with no mercy!
Very soon, even Mowrek was forced to fall back. Well, they hit my father. He got a cannon shot glancingly, as he was covering the Mowrek's retreat! My daddy thought to be dead. However, who knows how, he awoke back on Tuchanka! After many months, his condition improved. At the hospital, there was this "pretty nurse" ... huh, huh, well, so to speak. Of course, it was a ... "Krogan hottie!" Anyway, she took care of him with great devotion. So, they ended up falling in love!
When my father was healed, he decided to be fed up about war, destruction and death. He wanted to start a family, living in peace. So, Dad left the military, finding the more suitable place to live, and he got married. Some time later, his wife said they were going to have a baby, and my father went wild with joy! However, there was just one fertilized egg, therefore ... maybe it was all true! Of course, they had already heard some terrible stories, and they had seen what was happening to the children. Many of them were stillborn or were inexplicably dying, shortly after taking the breath because of an obscure disease called genophage.
However, my father refused to believe this thing would also happen to his own son! So, together with his wife they waited for the birth, day after day, with joy, in great emotion. They both were full of hope, dreaming that it was a baby boy. For sure, he would become a great warrior like his father. Or a baby girl! Actually, it didn't matter! The only thing mattered was that, the baby was healthy and strong, like a right Krogan!
Finally, the day came, but ... sadly, the hatching was dramatic! A baby girl was born. She was tiny little, and they could tell right off that she was suffering. They named her ... Aethyta! She lived only a few days, no one had been able to do anything for her! She died in the arms of my father who came out fallen apart! To see that little innocent creature, the result of nothing but love, dying from a blame she didn't belong ... it was devastating! Unfortunately, the worst was still to come!
A few days later, coming home, Dad found his wife in a pool of blood! That poor creature had not stood the despair! The thought that, she could never give to him no child, it was too crushing for her, so ... she killed herself! My father always said this day has been the worst day of his entire life!
Genophage had torn away in a flash, all that most dear he had ever got. So, in the grip to the most brutal despair, he ... well, he took a Krogan oath! He swore, he would find and killed with his own hands whosoever in the galaxy was involved with the creation of genophage, or who had aided to spread it out, from then on, and for the rest of his life!
… Karin stay long in silence. She squeezes Aethyta's hands, or caresses her face, trying to comfort Aethyta's tears, with a heavy heart, sharing the pain. Karin is a doctor, she knows well the genophage impact and effects. She always thought, it was a barbaric and brutal way to get the Krogan Rebellions down. She keeps thinking that, cruelty and wickedness are among the few things that always walk together, shared between all the species evenly.
For this reason, she is not at all surprised by Aethyta's tale. However, Karin figures out, how much close Aethyta has been touched by the ancient tragedy. This makes Karin's heart bleed in her own chest. She cannot help but think about Aethyta's father. How much he must have suffered, and how much these events so distant in time, are able to continuing hurt Aethyta today again.
Karin feels a shiver run down her spine as she wonders how long "the past" will hold their lives hostage. What if one day "the past" will have the strength to claim their future back once again?! Karin gazes at Aehyta, and all of a sudden she looks so fragile. She feels closer and closer. All that she wants is relieve Aethyta's grief, comfort her, make her feel better. Karin gets up, and sweetly says ...
K: Oh Sweetie, here! I'm sorry ... oh, my Love ... I'm so sorry!
Aethyta reciprocates the embrace intensely. She feels connected to Karin, every instant more. Her presence, Karin's love, gradually are able to drag her away from that abyss, getting her tears fade away.
A: Oh, I know. Oh, my little Sugary, I know! Don't worry, I'm fine! All this shit doesn't stink almost more! Just you've to stay here because ... the worst part is still to come!
Karin touches Aethyta's lips with a soft kiss, then she takes Aethyta's face in hands, looking at her with love. Karin's firm voice always can cheer Aethyta up.
K: Come on, Sweetie ... I love you ... whatsoever it is, I won't leave!
A: So, after what had happened, my father could no longer stay back on Tuchanka! After the ritual concerning death, he put on his battle armor, and drove off. He was blinded by rage. The fury pulsed, coursing within his veins. His soul cried out for revenge in relentless way. He became a mercenary! Any war, whatsoever fucking battle, it was fine. He yearned to keep himself groggy, not to think, getting his bloody revenge.
Dad accepted only contracts where the target was Turian or Salarians. The more time passed, he became more ruthless because, no revenge could soothe his pain! He fought with fury, in wild way, crushing each enemy in blood rage ... wishing every time to end it all!
However, his destiny was to keep on surviving! He dragged himself in that delirium for over four hundred years. Until one day, while he was on the Citadel to stock up on weapons and ammo, he accidentally bumped into an Asari, while he was coming out from a store. Both ended up on the ground, run over by a mountain of rifles and mags.
It was the matriarch Shialana, my mother, who by chance was passing there. When Dad saw her cleverly reassemble a Claymore which had fallen apart ... huh, huh, my father has been thunderstruck instantly! Oh well, Mom was gorgeous, as well as smart, fearless and damn quad! You know Karin, rather than Benezia or than me, Liara looks like my mother quite a lot!
She has been a Commando for centuries. She had always been bewitched by soldiers and attracted to the warriors. That big as a mountain Krogan, covered with scars and armed to the teeth, could only turn on her curiosity. So, she asked him how the hell he got all those wounds. My father willingly told her, in great detail, as he was offering a drink in a bar.
It was since long time that my father didn't talk to anyone about himself. However, this Asari was so charming and friendly. So, he spoke to her of the Rachni wars, about the great Kredax's Elite Guard, and the Krogan Rebellions. Dad poured his heart out to my mother. He told of when he went dying, speaking of his wife, and the little Aethyta, of the genophage, and about his oath.
He told everything to her. My mother was deeply moved by his story! They met many times, and slowly she fell in love with that great warrior so strong, and yet so incredibly kind. Without waste any more time, they were married hastily, going to live back on Thessia, where my mother had an estate. They loved each other, they were happy. So, they began to wish for a daughter, and I popped out!
My mother swore, having seen my father who was wiping tears in secret, as he held me tenderly in his arms for the first time. Huh, huh, yeah! Dad, of course, denied in the strongest terms that it was true! You know Sugary, it was my mother who decided to call me Aethyta, in memory of that little one Krogan, so unjustly torn to life because of the genophage.
I spent a childhood and a carefree youth with my family. My parents loved each other very much, and we lived in harmony. Well, to be honest ... when my mother was wearing his old uniform for "special" nights with my father, I wanted to sink through the floor for the shame! Oh, you can't believe, I know, but ... at that time I was much less shameless than now! Oh, Athame sees! They used to stay locked in their room for days on, and ... holy shit! They were my parents! It was an affair just a bit embarrassing!
However, the time passed, and I became Maiden. Well, I was so young! I was hungry for emotions, looking for adventure, just like my father! I could not wait to walk my own path! So, I left my home. However, I was flat broke, and like many other Maiden, I supported myself by working as a dancer ...
Karin cannot suppress a crooked sly grin, as she imagines the young Aethyta in so skimpy sexy clothes, dancing on a podium, having all customers' greedy eyes on herself.
A: Hey, don't laugh ... I was good, you know!
K: hmm, no doubt, Sweet thing, and ... maybe later, you'll have to dance for me!
Aethyta smirks back artfully, while her voice becomes very sexy for a moment ...
A: Well ... you need to deserve it before, but ... we'll see!
Then, the smile leaves Aethyta's gaze, as she gets serious.
A: Anyway, one cursed day, my father discovered by accident that, my mother had fought in the Krogan Rebellions! As I said, when she was young, mom was a Commando. Her missions had always been the usual bullshit for Commando! Patrolling or sabotage missions, some Krogan killed with surprise attacks, and little else. However, the last mission of my mother was completely different! Thanks to her outstanding biotic powers, Mom was assigned back on Tuchanka, together with other powerful biotics. They had the task to erect a barrier, while Turian and Salarians Teams used the Shroud Tower to ... disperse the genophage!
My mother didn't know what she was really doing. She was just getting her work done, as usual! She only knew, they were going to use a no lethal weapon which would stopped the Krogans without exterminate them, but ceasing the war. When she realized that she had helped the spread of the genophage, she came out distraught! ...
My mother left the military, and she went back on Thessia, in the grip of a deep regret. She fought against depression for decades, to overcome her incurable guilt trip. She became Ambassador to redeem herself. My mother engaged herself for centuries with all her forces, in the attempt to rehabilitate the Krogans reputation in the Galaxy. She sought credits for funding whatsoever study or project which was capable one day, to synthesize a cure.
Mom and Dad met centuries later that Turians and Salarians got dirty their own hands with that shit! Dad had almost a thousand years that fucking day, when he discovered the truth! Oh, Athame sees! He was furious. He couldn't believe that he was tricked by the one who meant so great deal in his life!
Mom repeated in tears that, she would never have taken part in that mission, if she had known Turians' real intentions. She told him that she loved him, and many times she had been on the point of telling him everything, asking forgiveness ... but she never had found the courage to do it! However, Dad refused to listen to reason! A Krogan oath may not be broken, constraining the one who utters it for the whole life!
Consequently, my parents came looking for me. I was less than a century old, and I was wiggling in a seedy club. Told me, they would sort things out, forcing me to promise that, I would have continued to love who of them had survived! I was shocked! I couldn't believe, my parents were going to snuff each other out, in a battle to the death!
I tried in every way to dissuade my father. I implored him in tears to forgive Mom! Then, I was blinded with rage. I also beat him up, screaming that he was a fool, and I needed of them both. I said that he couldn't destroy our family as well! However, my father was very strong, and my biotic powers still too green to be able to hold him for long. He was a Krogan, a quad and proud one, so strong and loyal ... of the fucking kind of krogan who refuses to listen to reason!
Before leaving, he said he loved me, he always had been very proud of me, he couldn't wish for a better daughter, and blah, blah, blah! Shit of goddess! He asked me to stay close to my mother, until she fully recovered. He said to come home, back on Thessia with her, staying there for a while. I didn't understand a goddamn fuck, I felt totally messed up!
My mother told me I had to be strong that, she loved me more than her life, and she would never want to end like this! She was sure she would die because she knew my father's great warrior talent. My mother told me, she forgave him, and so do I I had to do! She made me promise not to leave him alone, and then ... shit! Then, she could no longer hold back her tears. She hugged me tightly in her arms before running away!
They finally chose the cursed place of the clash. An isolated wide open space surrounded by several coverts. Both wore their old battle armor.
My mother went into hiding behind a cover hastily, while my father was running towards her at full tilt, like a bat out of hell, in the grip of blood rage! She knew if my father had taken her, it would be over! Therefore, at the right time, she made a biotic jump, taking him in the back. She shot immediately with her Disciple, then a second fast shot, almost at point-blank, before realizing that my father had turned his shields off. He was not using his powerful biotic barrier, and his Claymore had no thermal clips!
There was a long silence, during which my heart was frozen, and burned, then ripped apart. There was no more voice in my breath. Words was simply choked in my throat. Nothing but darkness in my eyes, the hell, then the deepest night. The great Krodex, fell down on his knees, struck dead, without even a whimper, with no words. His lifeless heart frozen in the silence for eternity!
As soon as my mother realized, she threw herself on Dad, totally mad with despair! She picked up his big snout on her lap, as she kept tell in tears, with sorrowful voice, again and again, and again ... -"Why, fool headstrong Krogan? ... Why did you do it?! Oh, why, why, why?!"-
My father couldn't break his oath, but ... he loved my mother so much, he could never harm her! So, that was the only goddamned fucking way that, his bloody Krogan's brain was able to find!
I came back on Thessia with Mom, for Burial. She was ... broken! With her blank glance perpetually fixed in the void. She was so distant, more and more prisoner of herself ... enchained in a stubborn silence. So, a few days later ... I found my mother lifeless, on the grave of my father! She held a note for me in her hand! Only a few words ... "Aethyta, I love you. You must be strong, I beg you ... I could not!"
Oh, Karin! Shit! That was a horrible day in my young life! My parents were the ones who I loved most in the world! They both were gone in so absurd way, so shocking manner! I was in despair, and furious with my parents. I couldn't reason out, and ... just one thing I knew, I was on my own with my pain! They abruptly left me alone, and completely hollow! I was little more than a child for my species! Suddenly, I found myself with no one purpose nor aspiration, in the grip of a sharp pain. I was a prisoner of my despair, frozen in my torment, with no choice. I was caught in a chilling nightmare, from which I had no strength to be able to wake up!
… Karin is upset by the terrible tale of Aethyta. She would never imagine that such a tragedy had destroyed Aethyta's life when she was still so young. Karin would do anything to be able to comfort Aethyta, to erase from her heart those terrible memories, relieving anguish, soothe her pain once and for all. No word, no sentence seems deep enough, to express to Aethyta the full support of Karin, all the unlimited love she feels for her ...
K: Oh Thyta, I ... I don't think I'll ever find the right words to tell you how sorry I am ... how much I am close to you!
Aethyta barely can talk. She is confused because of memories so distant in time are able to come back so heartbreaking today. Aethyta takes Karin's hands in silence, shaking strong in hers own. She puts Karin's backhands on her own cheeks, and lovingly strokes them, by covering with kisses. Finally, Aethyta wraps Karin hands around her own waist. She ties Karin with impetus in her arms, inside the more moving hug that Aethyta can find. Tears are sparkling in Aethyta's eyes, in balance around her very sad expression. She has a tormented look, and broken voice, as she speaks again ...
A: So ... try to say ... with no words!
Karin's heart bursts out ...
K: Oh, come here ... I love you, I love you ... I love you!
A: I love you too, Karin! ... Please, hold me tight ... graze my soul ... take care of my pain ... I wanna have you in my mind, all night long. I need that you touch me, my Love ... from skin to heart!
… When Aethyta opens her eyes it is already morning. She is still tight in Karin's arms, and gets the feeling to have slept for a long time. Aethyta feels peaceful, deeply satisfied, and happy to such a point that is hard to believe. Karin's hand is so sweet, while she is caressing Aethyta's shoulder slowly, with love, and who knows how long. Aethyta feels strong and confident, regenerated in one word. Soon, Karin realizes that Aethyta is awake, and her voice puts Aethyta in a good mood more and most ...
K: Hey, good morning, sleepyhead ... welcome back among us! Feeling better this morning?
Aethyta tightens herself more in that embrace, brushing Karin's lips. She approaches Karin's mouth more and more intimately, blending their lips into a sweet kiss. She smiles again, as she replies ...
A: Yep! Because, you're not a doctor, my Sugary! You are ... an amazing medication!
Karin bursts in laugh, and says ...
K: huh, huh flatterer!
However, Aethyta seems not joking at all. Her tone is clear and convincing ...
A: Nope! I'm bloody serious! I buried this huge pain very deeply inward me. I didn't pop it out for centuries. If you weren't here, taking care of me so lovingly, I couldn't kick it back in the fucking hole where it was hiding, so in a rush! Thanks my Sugar, to be so close to me, and ... Oh Babe, for such an exaggerated sheer lechery night! I love you, Karin, and you mean more and most!
Karin voice sounds persuasive and sexy, as she replies ...
K: Oh, Sweetie, YOU were exaggerated last night! To be honest ... it was absolutely hot and bothered to me too!
Karin hesitates an instant, embracing Aethyta once again. Her huge protective instinct takes over, setting off a sick feeling in her stomach, as she says ...
K: Look, Sweet thing ... Liara will be here soon. Certainly, she will remember one of the most intense missions, exciting and brimming with pathos, we've ever faced! The one where Dr. Solus oversaw the genophage! So, thanks to that thrilling smash, we got a solid alliance with Turians and Krogans. However, it could be very painful for you, so ... I can understand if you don't stay!
Aethyta reciprocates Karin's lovely cuddles. She lightly slides her fingers on Karin's face, playing with her lips and hair. Aethyta's voice is quiet and safe, as she replies ...
A: Thanks Sugary, but treat the genophage was the dream of my mother, and the reason of my father's oath. I've to stay for them! I need to finally find a sense to a totally senseless sacrifice! Don't worry Little One! Everything will be fine, as long as you're here just next to me!
Karin takes Aethyta's hand, squeezing it between hers own. She wraps her fingers on, crossing them tenderly around Aethyta's fingers, then in proud voice she says ...
K: I'm right here, my Love, and ... I won't go!
To be Continued ...