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<blockquote class="quoteContainer"><div class="quote">Ashana took a sharp breath in, feeling the pain in her limbs hit her, furious at her for demanding so much. she struggled to her feet, and look at Milenya. <span style="color: DarkOrchid">"Gun... you..."</span> Was all she could mumble out as she forced her feet to get her moving back towards the exit, back towards the airlock. Her mind was in a haze of fatigue. She needed a few moments to regain herself, to cooldown, before she could even think about attempting something biotic again. It would be up to Milenya to shoot any immediate husk threats for the moment, though the blast had managed to give them a window of opportunity to get clear.</div><div class="quoteExpand">Click to expand...</div></blockquote>
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</div>Milenya flashed a brief smile back as Ashana complimented her. Even though they weren't nearly close to being somewhere safe, the simple praise still felt good.<br/><br/>She focused on moving with Ashana, heading towards the exit, when she noticed the telltale movement and electronic signatures of more husks. Pairs, trios, groups of them homing in on their location. Side by side with Ashana, she snapped off the occasional shot in between lifting husks off their feet, but it wasn't long before her first heat sink hit capacity.<br/><br/>She instantly obeyed Ashana's command, throwing herself into tossing lift field after lift field. The growing aches helped her mind haze over in a way she was long familiar with, pushing aside the fatigue as she slipped into a near-trance. Almost by instinct, attuned to the other Asari in a near mystical way, she coordinated her pulls with Ashana's throws.<br/><br/>The situation was getting desperate. With so many husks, so many bodies floating in the air, so many more hurling themselves at the pair of Asari, something began to break inside her. The shift in Ashana's emotions as she came up with the plan steadied Milenya just enough. Even as Ashana judged the timing and let loose a powerful throw, Milenya braced herself and flung out a flashbang into the suspended mass of husks.<br/><br/>The detonation of the grenade was almost redundant within the thunderous roar of so many mass effect fields concussively dumping their energy. Milenya's armor, built for the kind of load a collapsing tunnel or falling boulder might generate, withstood the impact well enough as she was driven to the floor. Disoriented, she looked about and focused on the other Asari, responding to the half-coherent order by staggering upright. Her pistol clicked once with a hiss as she pulled the trigger.<br/><br/>She looked blank for an instant, before she reflexively triggered the heat-sink eject and snapped a new coolant module in. Moving almost mechanically, she snapped out several shots to disable still-moving, mostly intact husks nearby. Even disoriented, the husks were recovering faster than Ashana was, and thus they were priority targets.<br/><br/>Even in the fugue state she'd entered, Milenya still took a moment to look over the alien machinery Ashana had bounced off of. If there were an obviously loose piece she could snap off, she would, but either way, she had her orders; kill husks that threatened them. She changed out another heat sink, sticking close and moving protectively to cover Ashana as she stumbled towards the exit.<br/><br/>Another husk staggered up from wherever it had been thrown to, and Milenya greeted it with a pair of shots, one to the gut and the second to the head. Further away, the deeper thumps of Sorv's rifle and the staccato hammering of automatic fire interspersed with the eerie screams of husks.<br/><br/>The thrumming of her headache was distant at best, the aches in her muscles disregarded, her entire world down to the simple thoughts,<span style="color: #6495ED"><i>Kill husks, protect Ashana, survive.</i></span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>