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"Have they power or have they not? There's the Question. If they have, never provoke them."
Richard Prior, The Vicar of Bray & Sir Thomas More, Dialogues of the Dead [Don't pretend to be Wiser than your Master, or his Eldest Son.]

There is a collective intelligence on Voeld, splintering throughout Heleus space; the approach of Initiative species invigorated angara. 

Fytch — Promise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehwNtUBXXNw

Jaal: You promised you'd get our people out.

"As a matter of fact," Eryximachus replied, "I shall do both. I shall take your turn—you can speak in my place as soon as you feel better
—and I shall also cure you. While I am giving my speech, you should hold your breath for as long as you possibly can. This may well 
eliminate your hiccups. If it fails, the best remedy is a thorough gargle. And if even this has no effect, then tickle your nose with a feather. 
A sneeze or two will cure even the most persistent case."
Plato, Symposium, 185d [a big sneeze: asari biotics].

"Here he comes, in pudding-time, to resolve the question:
—Come hither, you lying varlet, hold up your hand at the bar of justice, and answer me to what I shall demand."
John Dryden, Sir Martin Mar-All, or the Feigned Innocence, a Comedy, Act IV, Scene 1, 1667 [Molière, L'Étourdi ou les contre-temps.]

"Lady Smart:— One thing is certain, that she hath promis'd to have him.
Lord Sparkish:— Why, Madam, you know Promises are either broken or kept.
Lady Answerall:— I beg your Pardon, my Lord ; Promises and Pye-crust are made to be broken."
Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation, Dialogue I, 1738.

Dora unexpectedly measured a note to fragile Moshae Sjefa. Jaal grabbed from Cardinal virility modicum, promptly braced into Sjefa.

The Vamps — Just My Type
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyumlCAXagQ

Moshae Sjefa:— Reproduction. Jaal Ama Darav:— Domination. Tyranny. Annihilation.

"Truly it does Hell's torments fairly match, to mount by others to celestial light."
Saadi, Gulistan or Rose Garden, Chapter III. The Excellence of Contentment, Story 3, p. 155 [For 'tis better to bear up sorrow, than be a debtor.]

"I am now almost come to the blunt resolution of Luther, expressed in as blunt Latine, vadat mundus sicut vult, nam vult vadere sicut vult 
[let the world run its circuits & which way it will take its course]; onely give me leave, I beseech you, to trouble your honor and myselfe 
with publik affaires. I hope, by the blessing of God, the feare of those wretched soules, who thirsted for blood, is pretty well blown over; 
and that some of them shall drinke of that cup they intended for others." 
Letter of Mr. Ralph Harmer to secretary Thurloe, March 5, 1655, in A Collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe, Volume 3. 

Angara lived an imaginary symbiosis with kett, a dream Dora shattered. Henceforth SAM & his kett sink deeper in abyss of brutishness.