[ It would be easier to not speak of it. But it had happened - and then, like now, it had been gutting, it had whittled her out all thin. She could barely move under her own weight after it had happened. ]

It's alright. We all know, and we're all one mind now. [ It's a matter of time. ] Parker was a member of my brood. We had just... well, it was our first mission, actually. We didn't ... along with the locals, due to some complications.

[ Ilde's lack of humanity, maybe, Ren's rage. It didn't matter. She hadn't placed blame then, she wouldn't do it now. It was what it was -- there was no point blaming skags for eating people either, they had done as they would do.

But she wouldn't forget, either. ]

He was shot, just as we were leaving the planet. It was... [ shakes her head then, no point saying, he can feel it himself, an echoed lamentation through the hive. Pitched and rocking like the boat Nirad had given her images of. ]