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Into the Unknown	By : Spiritwolf71 Category: +M through R > Mass Effect Views: 6762 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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They day had been unusually long and they had cleaned up quite a lot throughout the majority. Non one knew anything about the planet, nor how long it had been day before they crashed. How long were the nights, did they get cold? They had decided to put the fire out at dawn. They just knew that the trees were abnormally large and that there was some huge creature in the water that could swallow a small Asari whole.
Tanith had to admit, she had gotten a bit of a chuckle out of the story. She had really figured the young Asari was a complete liar and didn’t have any talent but the Turian seemed rather impressed, and Turians were warriors or at least she had always figured they were. She had known quite a few, even at her young age and she had pretty much respected them. Both Remes and his father had seen war so they would know.
She had spent most of the gutting the shuttle and making a makeshift shelter. She had helped burn the bodies and then organized the food. When they had returned Remes had gone to work to make them some sort of generator so they would have power. They seemed to work well together, which was a good thing since they had no idea if they will ever be saved. The only stick in the mud was the damn human and that would have figured.
He’d been sitting by himself fiddling with that black box he had recovered from the satellite and had not bothered to help anyone else. Tanith had half a mind to kick him out of their little shelter, but then sometime knowing where a potential problem lay was better than to have it come back and haunt you. She would keep an eye on him but she certainly didn’t trust him. Now that everything was secure and safe and they would have a safe place to sleep, they needed to consider the food issue.
The Turians had already started rationing. Laius figured with their current supply they were looking at nine months, a year if they really spread it out. He did however, have those seeds, with that he could sustain them forever, although they would miss a few nutrients that their bodies required. Their time on the planet came with a time limit and that seemed to make everyone sad. Last thing they wanted to do was lose anyone else.
The rest of them could pretty much eat whatever they found that would not poison them. The human had found some large fruit hanging from the large leaf tree near the shore. He had said they looked like coconuts except coconuts were not red. After some examining it was found that it should be edible by the four of them. The only problem was it tasted like crap. At least to her, but then she always liked her meat. She wondered if that large water creature would taste good.
Meat would not be a problem. All of them except the older Asari were capable hunters, they would just have to go out and find a creature they could eat, preferably not one that would try and eat them back. They also had six pistols, three assault rifles, three shotguns and one mantis. They had several heat sinks and quite a bit of ammo but they would have to ration that as well. They still had no idea what the native life would be like.
They had decided that in the morning Remes and Elysia would make another longer trip. The consensus was four hours in each direction. Tanith and Laius would take a trip as well and the human well he had wished them luck. Tanith was not sure he wanted Keith alone with their rations. Dharti would stay as well, but she was merely a teacher. If Keith decided to do something stupid Tanith was not sure she could defend herself. The teacher swore she could but then admitted her biotics were not he most powerful, actually more along the level of parlour tricks.
For now they simply watched the day give into the night.
Tanith had spotted a moon later in the day and had to admit she was surprised when a second on appeared as well. The second one was red though and it made and interesting tint. They had decided not to have a fire at night. It would be more visible and attract more attention than during the day. Instead they all seemed to spread out and were lost in their own little world.
Tanith herself could not believe her luck. She had wanted to get away, but not like this and not forever. She was a creature of convenience and liked to know what her food was. She liked to occasionally eat out or watch a vid. She hated most people and liked to be alone. Now she was stuck on a planet with five other that expected to speak to her, or even worse, expected her to talk back. None of them even knew she was female either.
She sat and looked into the water. It was almost camouflaged into the darkness of the night. Had it not been for the reflection of the red moon that hung quite low, one would not even know it was there.
“So if the river has pretty large creatures in it, I can just imagine what’s in that great big body of water.” Elysia said sitting beside her. Tanith looked at her for a long moment.
“Are you purposely trying to annoy me or are those tentacle on your head limiting the air your brain gets?” Tanith said.
“I’m not a squid, nor did we come from them,” the Asari answered, “And I’m bothering you because you are the most interesting of all these people.”
“You’re not one of those Krogan worshippers are you. You know those that wonder of Krogan are big in all areas?”
This made Elysia laugh. “No, I know about the Krogan anatomy, we are taught about all space faring species in school. And it really doesn’t mean much to an Asari. We don’t look at things like that when looking for a mate. I just admire the Krogans because they are strong and they can fight and they take nothing from nobody.”
“You ever hung out with a Krogan before?”
“No not really,” the young girl admitted
“Might want to reserve judgment until you do,” Tanith said
“So are you trying to tell me you’re an ass?” Elysia smiled at her. Tanith looked at her for a long while. Some Krogans would have torn her arms off for a comment like that.

“You’re pretty brave for a tiny woman,” She said and smiled slightly.
“Yeah and you’re pretty grumpy for a woman,” Elysia looked to her. Tanith’s eyes narrowed. “Relax, I didn’t tell anyone. I could tell you didn’t want them to know with the deep voice and all.”
“How did you know?”
“When we were crashing and you reached over and put my belt on, your voice was different, higher pitch. At first I thought it was panic, but then Krogan are not meant to panic. Then I thought I would throw it out and see how you reacted and,” she lifted her arms, “I’m a trained Asari Commando, we are supposed to be observant.”
Tanith grunted and looked to her not sure what to do.
“Your secret is safe with me, honest. But why?”
“Did anyone ever tell you curiosity killed the Pyjak.”
“Lots of things kill pyjaks, mostly Krogan. It’s ok, you don’t have to tell me, I won’t tell the others, honest,” She promised.
“You really an Asari Commando?”
“Well. I am a new Commando but I trained since I was very young. My mom didn’t want me too but I wanted to be just like her,” Elysia started.
“A yes or no would have been fine,” Tanith laughed, “That is something you and the humans have in common, you tell people too much, you’re very social creature you and they.”
“I think we are all very social people in our own ways,” Elysia stood and stretched. “At least the nights are warm.”

“At least,” Tanith agreed and watched as the Asari moved into the shuttle. The Krogan remained in her spot. She would watch the shuttle tonight and make sure it stayed safe. She was prepared for a long night.

As the moon continued to reflect off the waves Tanith could have sworn she saw something move, but then she was straining her eyes. She brought her hand up and gave them a rub and when she was done there was nothing. She simply shrugged and continued to watch.

Dharti woke with a start, on the floor of the shuttle with an arm around her. For a few minutes she panicked as her mind took a little too long to catch up with her. The crash, yes, she remembered now. That was probably why every muscle in her body now felt stiff. She liked to call it the morning after syndrome. Injuries and alcohol always hurt more the morning after. Not that she was an alcoholic, but she was known to enjoy a drink or two with colleagues and friends on occasions. Of course since the death of her wife the drinking binges had come a little more often.
She looked down to the arm around her and frowned as she looked to the human behind her. She made a face but rather than wake him and have to deal with his grumpy demeanour she rolled away and stood. She looked down and realised the human had somehow wedged himself between the younger Asari and herself. She shook her head. Keith was definitely going to be a problem.
The funny part was that he had certain traits her wife had before they had been married. When Dharti had first met Kimberly she had her own over confident swagger that one had when making up for the fact that they were insecure. She tended to hide it behind alcohol and one night affairs and was on a very destructive path. At the time Dharti had never met a human.
Kim had come to her school on Thessia to teach the Asari about the humans, their history, politic and their culture. She was an amazing teacher and great with the children, but not so much with other adults. She had this over inflated ego and often came on too strong to everyone. Dharti had disliked her immensely when they first met. Kim had done everything in her power to make the Asari uncomfortable and Dharti did everything in her power to avoid the woman. The problem was they kept clashing into one another.
One day Dharti was cleaning up her class room. It had been a late day and being a music teacher she had been in charge of planning a concert. She had started to compose a song when she heard someone crying. Kim’s room was across the hall from hers and she found the human sitting on her desk. Her mother had died and she had just found out. Dharti had comforted her then invited her home for dinner. She did not want to leave the emotional human alone.
That night they had talked for a very long time. She had found that Kim had a less than ideal life. An abusive father, a mother that ignored it, Dharti was surprised that Kim had come out even partly normal from her childhood. She had also seen a side of the woman that no one had ever seen before. From then Kim began to change towards her and Dharti had begun to like the human. It was only a matter of time after that they became close and the rest was, as the humans say, history.
As she stumbled out of the shuttle into the sunlight she wondered what Keith’s story was. Was there something horrible in his past he was making up for, or was he just an ass. She decided that she would reserve judgement for now.
She spotted the Krogan sitting almost in the same spot they had left him the night before and she moved over to him. She smiled. “I don’t suppose you have any coffee?” She had never been a fan until Kim had introduced her to it.
“Isn’t that a human thing?” Tanith asked standing.
“Yes it is, they are all addicted to it,” she laughed, “Were you up all night?”
“Most of it, I nodded off a couple times but not for long,” the Krogan answered. “I figured I would grab a bit of sleep now. I don’t require much though.”
“That sounds good,” Dharti moved down to the luggage area and found her bag. “I’m just going to go down to the water and clean up a little bit.”
“I’ll wait for you to come back.”
Dharti smiled as she pulled out her cleaning kit and a towel and headed down the hill towards the water. She had to admit she found the trees on this world to be absolutely beautiful, they were so full and some of the different colours were nice. The purple leaves mixed with green and red, she knew on Earth that the leaves changed with the seasons, she wondered if that was the same here. She smiled and began to sing a song as she moved around one of the trees and froze in her tracks.
The words of the song stuck in her throat as she looked to the spectacle before her. She wasn’t quite sure of what to make of it, or the small greenish girl tied to trunk of the tree she was looking at now. She could not help but stare, she was like the Asari, two arms and two legs, similar facial feature with some facial and body paintings, but instead of crest she had quills, or something similar, long quills hanging down to her back and then small dangerous looking ones on her shoulders and the back of her upper arms.
She was beautiful, or so the Asari thought, but different looking, like the humans. She was about as tall as Elysia, maybe a little bit shorter, physically around the same age. She looked injured, but then she was tied to a tree, she couldn’t imagine anyone really agreeing to something like that. Then the second question hit her, where were the people that did this to her. The native stared at her with wild terrified eyes.
“Tanith!” She called out. She moved closer to the woman, “Are you ok? We’re not going to hurt you.”
Then she spoke, quickly and panic filled her voice and the translator of her omni tool struggled with the translation. All it could translate was please.
“Shhhhh, it’s ok,” She soothed, “You need to talk slowly until the translator can figure out your language.”
“Dharti, holy crap, what is that?” Tanith asked finally arriving.
“I believe it’s more of a whom, and I don’t know,” Dharti answered, “But she’s terrified.”
That was a bit of an understatement, and when the large Krogan arrived the girl grew even more terrified. Dharti looked to the body markings; they were obviously tribal of some sort and the fact that she was wearing a loin cloth to cover her lower half and some hard leather item to cover her nipples. The marking spread up to her face.
Again the girl began to speak and this time the translator picked up please and tribute and Dharti looked to Tanith. “We did fall from the sky,” she said and shrugged.

“We still don’t know anything about her. I mean what if they chose her because she was a criminal or something. What if we release her and those quill come flying at us,” Tanith said.
“We can’t just leave her there,” Dharti defended.
“Leave who whe…” Elysia stepped around and found them. Her eyes widened when she spotted the girl tied to the tree.
“Wow where did she come from?” The younger Asari moved closer and reached out and touched the natives arm. The native looked to her as she did but stopped her struggling. “She’s terrified.”
Before the other two could stop her Elysia pulled out a knife and cute the vines that held her.
“No,” Tanith called as Dharti spoke at the same time.
“Wait,”
Elysia caught the girl as she fell from the tree and helped her to the ground. “She’s been beaten,” The Commando said. She looked down to the girl who looked up to her with frightened eyes. “Shhh, it will be ok, we’ll help you.”
Dharti and Tanith exchanged looks. The girl spoke again. “Please no hurt, no hurt,” There was an accent there; Dharti could not quite place it.
“Who are you?” Elysia asked as she continued to cradle the injured native.
“I Varra,” She whispered. “I please you.” She said looking up into Elysia’s eyes. The young Asari’s eyes widened and she blushed, considerably.
“No, you don’t have to,” Elysia replied, “what do you mean?”
She looked to Dharti. “I think she was left as a tribute for us, from her people, so that we would be pleased and would not hurt them.”
“Oh, Oh!” She said as she clued in, “Then we should return her and let them know we are not like that.”
“We don’t know anything about her or them,” Tanith said. “She could be a criminal and that was why she was chosen.”
Elysia looked down into the woman’s very light bluish grey eyes, “Maybe it’s because she is beautiful, many cultures and races sacrificed their young and beautiful to appease some god or other.”
“It could be that as well. The translator will learn her language soon enough and we will know more,” Dharti said gently. “We should get her back to the shuttle; see if the medigel can help fix her up.”
Elysia nodded and stood up, bringing the girl with her, “It’s ok; we’re going to help you,” she pointed to a bruise on the girls arm. “We will fix that.”
“I please you?”
Elysia nodded and gave her a little smile, “You are very beautiful, but you do not need to please us,” she said slowly, but it was obvious the translator was still struggling as the woman smiled.
“Good, I please you good,” She said.
Tanith moved to walk beside Dharti, “I suggest we keep Keith as far away as possible,” the Krogan said seriously peeking at the greenish girl holding on tightly to Elysia.
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