Kala couldn't help bu whistle in amazement when she finally reached the engineering deck and finally got a look around.  Too bad the first sight was the Cargo bay and not the core.  The thing that made it feel at home was the light humming resonance that seemed to vibrate through the walls and she could feel it when she placed her hand against the bulkhead while moving.  This ship must have an amazing Core to have such a smooth yet powerful resonance.  She followed that, hoping to find the core and maybe the Asari after she got to gawk at the core.  It was her luck that she found them both at the same time after walking through one of the bulkhead doors.<br/><br/>At least Airea was a lot more civil than Falkris had been, and didn't seem to outwardly hate Kala immediately.  When she had been passing Falkris on the way down, with the glare he had been giving her Kala couldn't resist giving him the 'one finger salute before she moved out of sight and into the surprisingly quiet elevator.  Of course now she was greeted in the engine room with the sight of the Asari in that compromising, and she only really realized it after she had spoken.  And her eyes lingered for a bit too long, especially when she moved her hips back and forth right in front of Kala.  She couldn't tear her eyes away for some reason until she felt the core itself through the heartbeat like resonance.<br/><br/>The sight of the core itself, and how quiet it actually was cleared her mind of anything that could have been  confusing her thoughts.  That single huge core was astonishing on such a smaller classed ship from her own studies on the ship Cortex's of the few she had been on.    Truthfully, this was the biggest Mass Effect core the girl had ever seen having only been on Freighters until now, other than the slaver ship years ago.  This was so amazing that she couldn't stop admiring it for a while until she heard Airea speak up past answering her question.  That made Kala turn to look at the Asari to see her appraising Kala herself.  It gave her the chance to see what she had been working on, the Fuel lines to the core.<br/><br/><span style="color: Magenta">“I wish I had had the chance to work on a ship like this before.  I've been told ships like how you said this one was were always something to try getting on as an engineer.”</span>she said after the snap of the fuel lines back into place.  Well, her father had said that anyway.  Of course when she said that this was all experimental technology, Kala looked around again and couldn't help but take noticed that many of the pieces she didn't recognize their model, or even what some were, and most of it looked newer than anything she had worked on, or even seen.<span style="color: Magenta">“Yeah, lucky me.  I probably would have been shot again if that wasn't the case.”</span>she said sounding a little sarcastic, but her eyes had light up with the possibility of taking some of this apart and learning how it works.  She was there for a moment before she realized that Airea was leaving towards the door.  She jogged a little to catch up before following at a walk.<span style="color: Magenta">“Well, I guess you got me now too...  two people for a whole ship.”</span><br/><br/>Was she giving Kala a tour or just talking while working?  That was what Kala thinking about as she followed the Asari down the stairs into the Sub-deck with all the other systems running and where most of the inner workings of a ship were.  This looked more like the insides of a ship as Kala was used to, just much newer and not covered in rust.  She was looking around the sub-deck when she felt the movement under her feet, and she was forced to dance a couple steps back.<span style="color: Magenta">“Woah! ... Hey!”</span>She complained a bit before watching what Airea extracted from the equipment that was raised.  It took her a moment to recognize it because of the size, but it immediately clicked.<span style="color: Magenta">“Damn, that's a big exchanger... but... I don't recognize the model or design...”</span><br/><br/>Of course, Airea soon made it obvious as to why.  She listened as she explained what had happened to actually cause the damage that was listed in the reports from earlier.<span style="color: Magenta">“Yeah, I noticed something was off.  It had the shape of a Turian ship, but too sleek and beautiful to be one of theirs...”</span>She commented before listening, and of course it became obvious.  At least after all her explanations while she was sitting down.  Kala herself moved over to the wall and leaned against it.<span style="color: Magenta">“Yeah, which is why a mechanic has to be picky, even if something works better... it sounds like whoever was the last to fly the Acheron didn't know about this, and never activated the said systems.  They did not know the ship.”</span><br/><br/>Kala watched as Airea got up and moved from her perch, forcing Kala to follow along up the stairs towards the core again.  “I noticed.  Something that big can produce a lot of power for a ship this small.  It would be a fun ride at full speed.”  she said, unable to help but match the smirk at the thought of the speed capable.<span style="color: Magenta">“It should be fun to keep flying with such a mix of parts.”</span><br/><br/>Next was the weapons array?  Oh, just great, the one thing that Kala knew next to nothing about were weapon systems other than small tidbits she learned from taking apart stuff they had transported on her old ships.  None of them had ever had much for weapon systems themselves for her to work on themselves.  Kala groaned a bit though when Airea decided to take the stairs up to the next deck instead of the nice elevator, and she had to follow at a jog.  Airea stopped and entered a door marked as the 'Crew Deck'.  Maybe that was where the sleeping quarters were?  Well, at least she knew where to go to put her bags later if that was so.<br/><br/>Through the Crew deck, Kala took a moment while walking through the deck to look around and do her best to remember where everything was.  She noticed the salarian from earlier who had helped with the bullet wound that Falkris had caused.  It would probably leave a light scar, but probably wouldn't be terrible noticeable with her skin color.  But at least it didn't hurt anymore.  He seemed to be straitening out the med bay when they walked past.<br/><br/>As soon as the door opened to the gunnery station, it was impossible for the engineer to miss the humming of the second core, and then the sight of the much smaller Mass effect core.  A Second core?!  Since when did ships have 2 cores that worked at the same time?  She was stunned by the sight while Airea explained the use of this smaller core.  She would hate to actually see the destruction some weapons powered by a dedicated core, even such a small one, could wreck.<span style="color: Magenta">“That's actually pretty terrifying...  no ship would want to be on the other end of those cannons...”</span>she said with a shiver at the thought.<br/><br/>With the offer to look at whatever had made the Asari grunt and immediately let out a whistle at the sight.<span style="color: Magenta">“Wow.  Those cannons really did do a number on this circuit.  Completely overloaded.  Shit.”</span>she said, completely agreeing with Airea's assessment of the thing.  She didn't know weapons, but she knew circuits that ran from Mass Effect cores, and the cores themselves.<br/><br/>Kala never really got to say anything more as she heard Mickey's voice over the comms overhead.  Instead she looked at the burnt circuits for a moment before moving over to the wall and leaned against it as well.  She really couldn't think of anything to say after Airea's last statement, and the silence became uncomfortable to her after a little bit.  She had to end it, thus she opened her mouth a bit, and spoke up on a completely different subject than the engines, and systems of the ship.<span style="color: Magenta">“So... Does Falkris always seem to have that stick up his ass all the time?!”</span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>