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[Alley]

Kate sat and gazed at McKay.

"What you heard doesn't matter to me, Mr McKay. You're intelligent enough to recognise those who care about opinions, and those who do not. I do believe you have the right to know what happened, but you should never forget that what is right, or wrong... it's only a matter of perspective." she said, pausing for a moment.

"There is much that happened that wasn't expected. Everything doesn't always go according to the plan. What I certainly didn't expect was to be dragged into a second war.

About two months ago, I went to Bretonia. Something was happening in the streams, unusual high spikes of mind emissions that were on a lower frequency than usual, something that nobody without the appropriate equipment could pick up. Fortunately, the incubi that fusioned with me did. What I mistook for a superior node regrouping forces for an attack, was a single, small, nomad. That nomad was being shot at by a group of bounty hunters, but it wasn't firing back, which was surprising. With such powers, he could have shattered their minds in a blink of an eye. Yet he did nothing." finished Kate on a sad tone, looking at David for a second.

"My instinct told me to help him. Why? I don't know. But I did. When the last bounty hunter blew up, he approached me, and asked me why I killed them. I answered all I did was protecting him.
I'll never forget what he said afterwards : "No entity has the right to take life away from another entity."

He asked me to follow him, and I did. After several days of cruise and using a series of totally unknown jump holes I had never seen before, we arrived to an uncharted system I still haven't been able to pinpoint today. He led me to a blue nebula, and that's where I found it. A nomad, four times the size of manhattan. It's only recently that I learned there were only three like this, and interestingly, each have a name. Aurora, Destiny, and Harbinger."

Kate stopped, looking at the two individuals in the event they had a question.

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Alley was right.