Eli nodded at Marcus' words before he moved to grab the translator from Max and hooked it up to his tapes and tried to reconfig everything. He continued to fiddle with it the entire way back to base without another word.

Max looked to the woman as Marcus spoke.
"Why... would they take her to the hive?" He asked after a bit of silence, "I know they'd use her as a breeding candidate but would there be any... other reason?" He asked, he didn't seem to be stressing himself with his words this time around, moreso just mulling over things to himself.
"And it was odd to see drones out alone without a commander alien." He continued with a furrowed brow, thinking about what he had read on the aliens.