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You're actually going through with this. You do realize that just about the closest I've ever been to a sword before now is staring at Athame's sword in the temple, right?

Arguing with a voice in the dark is a rather uncomfortable experience for me. I hope you two see fit to wrap it up soon, or I'll do so myself.

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Sounds very disconcerting, Liara. What would you have to use the sword for?

Most likely running through any humans who get on my nerves. Much easier than flaying them alive with my mind, don't you think?

[That? That was delivered as deadpan as it is possible to get.]

Are they really that bad?

[But Shep's concerned, anyway.]

Worse.

[A bit of a smile.]

But they did make one mistake.

Oh? What did they do?

They just gave me a magical sword, thinking I don't have my own agenda.

Magical--- What kind of place are you at?

That's a bit hard to explain. Some people have compared it to a children's book, or a video game. Almost real until you start paying attention to the details. I don't think I can do better as succinctly.

They're not complicated things, noble miss. You just swing them at what you want to die.

It's when that thing I want to kill swings one back at me that has me worried.

I find the most effective method is to swing first, but you're right, that is the harder part.

And it is also why I intend to rely on something more simply a sword.

I don't think we've met. Dr. Liara T'Soni.

This nameless knight humbly greets the doctor Liara T'Soni.

May I ask what situation is so drastic it needs more than a sword?

I think it is more that I am practiced with the use of my biotics. If I can't find a gun, at least I can still hit someone with a singularity.

...I'm afraid you've lost me, Doctor.

Asari have the ability to manipulate small mass effect fields. I can create barriers to slow projectiles, or a singularity to pull objects or people towards it. I can lift things, throw things, even cause damage by tearing things apart at a molecular level, though some things resist the effects.

Weapons have always been secondary to biotics, as far as my ability in combat is concerned.

[There's a long pause.]

You're a mage then.

[An equally long pause.]

Not really. Mass Effect fields are all based upon firm, scientific principles, and even the manipulation of these fields with the mind via biotic abilities is explainable through the interaction of the chemistry and electrical impulses of the brain and nervous system with element zero and the resulting control is developed over time.

However, I think most of the people who live in the town I'm been stuck in consider it magic, and to an extent, I've simply begun to treat it as such. It's easier than getting into the argument every time someone asks.

[There's that pause again.]

Ah. Well, I can't say I understand the science but I am just a knight and you're a doctor. I will take your word for it.

Although I should say that magic is a science where I hail from, but I don't pretend to be an expert on that either.

I'm an archeaologist. I'm an expert in Prothean technology. I've not spent much time studying myth and fantasy. All I can say is there is a point where the two become indistinguishable, but that point varies depending on any manner of factors.

In short, I'm not expert on 'magic' in any way. What I do follows simple, physical laws, though without eezo, they are laws that seems fantastic to normal physics. There is a reason most races take so long to uncover the nature if element zero and its unique properties.

I suppose I can see your point, Doctor. We call our King and his sons gods and out country holy, something we think of as fact, but to another culture wouldn't we just be people with primitive names for advanced things? I can't say I have thought about it much. I am a soldier and curiosity is not programmed into us.

[After a second or so, his helmet breaks apart into dust and then into light and finally nothingness. He just feels like being a little less formal.]

I will admit to some though. How fascinating it must be to look at the past.

[She offers him a little smile, choosing to ignore the comment about programming, for now.]

Yes. The Protheans were more advanced than any race is in our cycle. The ruled the Galaxy. And then they simply...vanished. In a few centuries, the Protheans went extinct. The mystery was always alluring to me. What were they like? How did they speak? How did they perceive the world? For more than a millennium, we've only been able to guess. I spent decades learning everything I could about them, and I still knew almost nothing.

[She shrugs.]

It was the puzzle that kept me seeking more.

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The way you say it... Makes it sounds like you are no longer blind to the answer.

[He looks quite intrigued himself by now.]

They were hunted to extinction by an ancient race of sentient machines. The Reapers. They've returned, and now hunt the modern peoples of the galaxy. But I have known that for years.

I met a Prothean, a living individual, the last of his race. He has answered many of my other questions. How were the Protheans governed? How did they interact with other races? He proved...enlightening.

[That causes some obvious contemplation in him. He's more or less a sentient machine himself and in fact one created to destroy species. But it's a bit jarring to think that it could actually happen. The strange state of affairs in his world mean that he wasn't aware wars could end.]

...I wonder if that is how dragons feel... [He clears his throat. He sometimes just gets lost in thought like that and it's always awkward.] Ah. You know, I wonder if it counts as historical study if there's still one around.

[And then he tries to make stupid jokes.]