12th Transmission -- Audio

[heavyweaponsbot]

[Oh hey Keep. It's Ironhide again. And boy does he sound unhappy.]

Tell me, lord.

[There is so much derision in that word, it should be a curse, not a title.]

Where are those who go missing? Do you send them home, to their "vanished worlds"? Or are you keeping them locked up!

[Something big and heavy impacts a wall.]

Answer me!

[... Finding Lea missing isn't sitting well with the big old bot.]

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[heavyweaponsbot]

Nothing. There is never any sign.

[Another grunt. He's bad at discussing this.]

... On the ship. The Elegante. People would vanish, sometimes they came back. Most of the time, they did not.

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[keelah-selai.livejournal.com]

[He talks like a krogan, all action and accusation, gruff tone, but with a metallic edge. It's familiar enough, but if Tali knew she was talking t a machine...]

Another place, like this...

[But a ship, not...what ever you'd call this place. A patch of land with nothing to do with anything, and nowhere to escape from or to.]

Thank you. And I'm sorry, for whatever you've lost. Keela Se'lai.

[It's soft, and she reaches to cut off the transmission, close the record, but hesitates and silently leaves the line open. He might have something else to say, or not, but the quiet umbilical of sound can be comforting, she knows.]