Raa hadn’t expected Voira’s reaction. That point was clear in when her body stopped in her tracks abruptly, her body flinched at the fist impacting the Geth’s faceplate and her hands jerked up to her face mask. Her eyes widened underneath her face mask as she watched her friend hit the Geth, hard. Several weapons drew upon Voira causing Raa’s heart to race within her chest and her breath held deep within, her words cried out in shock. “Voira! Stop, it’s not Avatar’s fault.” 

Instinctively she reached out and placed her hand on Voira, likely to stop her from landing another hit while her guardian screamed at the Geth’s platform in fury. Trying to calm her friend down, Raa barely heard the human reporting through his earpiece to only what she could assume was his superiors. Or when he tried to collect their attention for options.

At the man's words, Voira immediately settled down to reply to him. For a moment Raa stood there shocked and looked to Avatar, questioning his thoughts as her guardian made choices for her. The Quarian found it hard to decide which choice was best as she thought about what both the human and Avatar said, her eyes darted around the current group that far smaller than the earlier one. Their numbers dwindled down. 

After Avatar’s options were presented in usual Geth fashion, she was about to voice her thought before she was interrupted by a Turian diplomate. Tarak Sorinth moved in from behind her causing Raa to shift to the side, allowing him through to speak his thoughts. Naturally they made her uncomfortable as she shuffled in place, bring her closer to Voira instinctively. At the Turian’s bitterment she couldn’t help speaking up at his words. 

“We can’t just leave the Humans to fend for themselves and to get slaughtered.” Raa blurted out against the diplomat's comment. “There has to be another way.” 

Voira’s first responsibly was her after all, and her asari friend would pick her over others all the time. She could only guess these humans had done the very same thing.

RK piped in before the diplomat considered getting snippy with Raa’s words, her image appearing from the head to the shoulders. “The choice we make now reflects on us later in the future. I wonder how that looks if the local papers discovered a diplomat valued his own life over others. Would his reputation survive the slander? Raa, speak your thoughts cause I know you have something in mind after that little comment.” 

Raa took a deep breath. Her next comment was a faint hope to take everyone’s mind off the VI’s brashness to the Turian and lessen the sting when she turned to the human, a male and the one who gave the best option in Avatar’s view. “Avatar might be ideal, though I can hack just as easily with RK and likely know the systems better. Though I doubt Voira will allow me to willingly put myself into danger but I don’t like Avatar going alone. If he gets damaged enough, that will delay us far longer. A danger we can’t afford.” 

She looked at Voira and added. “What if you go with Avatar to keep him from getting shot? I’ll stay here with the diplomats and stay safe. The other option is I end up going to hack the systems myself and increase my risk of being shot, despite you being around. I don’t like either option really as with the shuttle as we’re condemning those left behind to die, but going after them could end up shedding blood with our already small group.” 

An idea popped into her head when she glanced to Avatar. “I just hope the systems are as old as I suspect. RK and I can download a virus that could affect the security cameras for while, making anyone using them essentially blind to our activities. Though I need to get to a nearby security station to deploy it because just any terminal won’t work. Instead the virus would have to filter through the whole ship and that could take precious time for it to actually hit what it’s suppose to. Time we don’t have.”