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1. If you join him, you're a fool. A public call to arms is what the enemy's been waiting for. They'll kill you where you stand. No hesitation, no remorse.

[Yes, Shepard has a plan. No, she isn't letting on that she has one here. If Erik wants to be a big flaming distraction, more power to him, but she isn't letting him take anyone else down with him.]

2. My offer for weaponry's still open. No compensation necessary, I got what I needed. If you can't shoot, I'll teach you. He was right on one thing: Defense is crucial.

3. Eliot, a word? Later tonight, unless you want in goring range of a ten-ton reptile. Let me know where to find you.

4. Kaidan--I'm on my way.

[She thinks. She and the triceratops are doing a bit of sizing up as she types this, so it's all up in the air how well this'll end up working.

MEANWHILE, anyone on the main road will see a single triceratops making haste more-or-less toward the pen Kaidan mentioned. It has two or three ropes tied near the ends of each of the two primary horns, the other ends of which are in her hands as she straddles its shoulders, just barely too far back for any potential injuries from the dinosaur's crest. The aforementioned hands are glowing a faint blue--she's strong, but not quite strong enough to steer a triceratops. Not without her biotics, anyway.]

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Did you find any body armour when you found the weapons? It may be beneficial to equip the trade expedition, if so.

Didn't find them. An old ally traded for them. Gave them to me last time I tried to pull things together.

[She probably mentioned having attempted a meeting to Liara before, but just to be safe, she isn't giving the OA any details to latch onto.]

If you need it, you can borrow mine. I'm staying pretty local while the expedition's gone.

[Someone has to, so it might as well be Shepard.]

Do you know where this ally found them?

[The curiousity is almost palpable, even over such an unemotive medium as text.]

Edmund, the trader.

Unfortunate. Although I suppose it would be foolish to expect it to be that easy.

Unfortunate's one way to put it.

There might be something in the bunker. Unfortunately, we're not headed that way 'til after the expedition.

I look forward to the trip when we do make it. What was preserved, and how, could tell us a great deal about the people who precipitated this conflict.

From what I saw on my last trip, it was mostly med supplies and some home-canned food. But we didn't have time to look too thoroughly, so it's possible that a few things slipped our notice.

That is in itself interesting - but speculation for another day.

[And that must have physically pained her to type.]

Let me know if you require any help with the dinosaur.

We've got enough speculation room to last us a year, maybe more. Not that I plan on being here that long.

And roger that.

[She's got Kaidan for that, but she'll keep Liara's offer in mind.]

It will be an interesting puzzle for those long, quiet nights years from now.

Here's hoping we'll be long gone by then. Starting to miss being around a ship that runs.

I would ask if you had any thoughts on how to get off-world, but that is a conversation much better held in person.

When you get back, then.

[Because it'll be an interesting conversation, at the very least.]

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