[center][h1][color=DarkGray]Ven[/color][/h1][/center]
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([i][color=SlateGray]Now this is surprising[/color][/i]) If Ven could give an expression equal to raised eyebrows, he would have been doing so right then. However, he remained within control of his emotions and instead went with thinking about what the Captain was saying. He drummed his fingers on his legs, going over it all in his mind while Pax went on her rant, and Grick added his own opinions. After some contemplation, he decided to talk himself.

[color=SlateGray]"I have a few things I need to... consider before really 'agreeing' to your plan-that is, if you would even allow us to disagree, considering we'd still be convicts and possibly fugitives if we were abandoned by you, or whatever it is you would be planning if we don't come along."[/color] He turned his attention toward Pax for a moment. [color=SlateGray]"I must admit I admire you for your incredibly tactless and pointlessly nihilistic attitude toward genocide, especially considering... well, nevermind."[/color] He waved it off, signalling he no longer cared for any more discussion about Pax's thoughtlessness when faced with something his own species had had to deal with.

[color=SlateGray]"Continuing with the points I'd like to address: first, I'm not sure I understand the need for a supposed mutiny. Admittedly, I have never been to Nomad, though my previous... [i]comrades[/i] were often a part of the trading there. I'll need some clarification as to the environment. But I'm sure it's nothing I can't handle."[/color] The disdain in his voice with the words 'comrades' would be evident to anyone in the room, clearly a reference to his previous days in the "mafia" of the planet he was originally from, and their betrayal for him. He shrugged.

[color=SlateGray]"Second, you're asking me to look for a race that I would have never gotten along with, had I ever met any, because of their treatment of my people. I will, however, disregard this in my optimistic view that their previous... invasive attitudes toward other races is no longer present in these... last of their species."[/color] He thought again for a moment. [color=SlateGray]"And thirdly... Well, this is probably the biggest reason why I would actually agree to this, presuming we have a choice. I have nowhere left to turn to, honestly. If I run into anyone from my previous, less "honest" days, they would almost certainly come after me if they found I was free. Of course, I'm not really scared of the utter sacks of garbage, considering they have become more pathetic since I have been gone, but that's still a possible threat to me if I go. It might even be a threat to me-well, all of us, really-if I stay, but not quite of the same caliber."[/color]

He grasped a part of his bandages that was bothering him in between his thumb and index finger and he fixed it in place, tightly. [color=SlateGray]"That being said, I'm more in than out, depending on the answer to my mutiny question."[/color]