(http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/bloodandhonor/images/7/7f/Kel_Dor.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120511114908)<br/><br/>"I'd be willing to try to learn how to use them as well," Shaa Raa said.  "I won't be able to match your pheromone output but, contrary to popular opinion, I can be taught and I can program my vocalizer to reproduce certain phrases in the Yuuzhan Vong language.  I certain don't see it being a problem if I have to restrict the phrase, 'hey bug, a little more to the left' to combat situations.   I'll also need to know a little about your physiology," he continued.  "I'm no doctor but I would certainly be able to keep you from bleeding to death if I knew how your circulatory system works.  Kiara's ability to use the Force won't work on you, so you're stuck relying on me and my little bag of gauze and tape."<br/><br/>He'd felt Lal react, if only slightly, to his touch.  Perhaps she wasn't as xenophobic as he'd expected.  Perhaps it was a common teaching technique for her people.  It might even be a case of the Yuuzhan Vong being a very physically demonstrative species and she missed that contact.  Maybe she found his touch comforting, rather than arousing.  In any case, this wasn't the time or place to explore Lal's sexuality.<br/><br/>He'd had an equally squeamish reaction to the bug crawling up Lal's leg, so he completely understood Mina's tone.  "I would rather be underrated that overrated as far as my ability with a blaster is concerned, Mina.  I'm quite serious when I say I expect that Lal is the only person here that I can outshoot.   Kiara can write her name with a blaster bolt.  You're a lot faster than I am on the draw and you are also a better shot.  I have no illusions about outshooting a covert ops specialist or an professional assassin.  so tell me, where should I rate my ability with a blaster?"  He cocked his head and looked at the pilot.  "When I'm good at something, I tend to keep it under my hood.  Overestimating my own ability has gotten me into far more trouble than I like to recall.  As far as cards are concerned, you'll have to sit across a table from me to find out how good I am or am not.  I will say only this on the subject.  I will never again bet anything that I cannot afford to lose."