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[At first, to be honest, Wing had been a little surprised/grossed out to hear even the possibility that the humans might eat the flesh of the dinosaurs. His kind fueled on simple liquid energon. Much less...well, messy.]

[But he's gotten over that, and been, in his off moments, doing the unpleasant task of taking the dinosaur carcasses and dumping them hopefully far enough away from, well, anything. Though the winds have likely shifted and the Old City may get an occasional whiff of eau de rotting dinosaur. Sorry.]

[He holds up a long, curved, whitish piece of bone. It's a rib from one of the carcasses: predators have obviously been at work. In his other hand, the broad crest of a triceratops, some tatters of skin still sticking to it.]

It occurs to me that these might be of some use to us?

It seems a shame to let everything go to waste.

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It was merely practical. And thank you once again for assisting.

[She smiles faintly.] Knives, awls - even needles, I believe, although the inevitability of decay means I have seen few examples in my studies. It is possible the raw material might be useful for trade, as well.

I'm sorry I could not assist more.

I'm not used to things that are so fragile.

[Not being able to help is incredibly frustrating for him.]

So this can become sharp. [He nods.] Do we know anyone who can work with this? What items might be tradable?

If we have time before the next crisis, perhaps we can begin to reinforce some of the more intact buildings, so that they can bear your weight even if they've been damaged.

[She considers the bones a moment, then shakes her head.]

I do not know anyone, that I can recall. Perhaps one of the humans who awoke from an earlier time period would know how to work it. If not, there must be some amongst the locals.

Or perhaps that they can withstand the next crisis.

[Wing has no problem with assisting in rescues, but he'd much rather they not need rescues to begin with.]

It's a simple enough task for me to take the bones and keep them safe, until we can find a use for them.

But, if I may ask. You are not from Earth? [You know, blue and all.]

That would be ideal, yes.

[She knew she liked you, Wing.]

Ah, no. I am not from Earth. I was born on Thessia, though my people have colonies on other worlds as well.

We shall have to work on that. The citizens of the Old City would be grateful.

Perhaps.

Thessia? And that is how you have this 'biotic energy'? [The words sound awkward to him.]

Even if they are ungrateful in the end, I believe it would be worth the effort.

[There's a brief pause, and she frowns a little - explaining biotics to someone with no experience with them at all is a new challenge.]

Yes and no. The unique makeup of Thessia is certainly a contributing factor to the overwhelming frequency of biotic ability amongst my species, but even asari born off-world are talented biotics. There are some theories that the pre-natal environment is what assures the continuation of the talent, as every asari's body is seeded with eezo nodes, but it is understandably a line of enquiry that raises a great deal of ethical concern.

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