<i>"Even if you had no way to stop him you could have told him off." </i>Maia puffed up her cheeks in a maidenly pout.<i>"Now it looks like the only one who opposed him is me and Alicia.  You should tell him he stepped out of line or he might quietly and serious consider if he could get away with it."</i>Perhaps Maia wasn't used to not being in command either, she had an awful lot of suggestions and criticisms for Speaker.<br/><br/>If the water naga had more to say on the matter, she didn't get the chance. The colour visibly drained from the seductive siren's face when Speaker told her about Zero's demise. Bile flooded her second stomach and the world swirled unsteadily around her.<i>"Th-that can't be right.... he must've been... mistaken."</i>Maia had to cling to the shoulders of the engineer that had just crawled in her tail-lap to keep herself steady, covering her mouth with one hand. Dead. One of their number was dead and they wanted to continue the mission? They should call it off, call for evac.<br/><br/><br/><i>"Iss-eeeeh."</i>Maia called out to the black-scaled snake when she made her return with the same whiny, desperate tone of voice usually reserved for when their bodies were entwined and so hot they might melt together. Frankly, the royal naga could use some physical comfort right now. It wasn't as if Alicia's hormones had affected her, their biology was too incompatible for that. But Maia craved a physical distraction from all the bad and traumatizing shit that had happened in the past hour, and it would be cruel to try and lead Alicia in such activities now.<br/><br/>The sensitive tip of Maia's tail wiggled a little in it's protective tailcup while the royal snake snuggled up against Alicia in lieu of Issy.<i>"Berrac's a brute who thinks with his groin the moment he smells something nice."</i>Maia informed when Issy asked about what had happened.<i>"Are~, I get even less now why you enjoy your mating sessions with him so much. Doesn't that dominating behaviour from a male turn you off?"</i>Few cultures were as casual or open about sex as Naga, and while Maia usually kept a lid on it when in the company of aliens she was frankly too mentally worn to keep a check on herself.<br/><br/>When the subject of Alicia's heat re-arose, the water naga shook her head.<i>"Her body craves something growing inside it, the sex is but a pleasant means to an end. It's not going to stop if she just gets off... It's not like a sexy-needy mood."</i>Maia wiggled her hips a little, a faint blush on her cheeks.<i>"Synthesizing the exact hormone cocktail to suppress your heat might take a few days no matter what equipment we use, Alicia. I'll keep the males off you until then and if things truly become unbearable I might have a solution that's not quite as extreme as getting you filled..."</i><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>