Room 520, Thursday Afternoon

[goforthe_optics]

Tali had been spending some of her down time over in Nos Astra, mainly to get a hold of some dextro foods and some mechanical components she couldn't find in Fandom. It was hard to spend too much time there, though, to be honest; indentured servitude was legal (like most things) on Illium, and it was hard for her to see other young quarians on

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[kenselvren]

Jalian came back to the room, paused at the sight of all the things spread out on the floor, then frowned. "What are you building?"

[goforthe_optics]

"A tank for my new friend here," Tali said, and waved a hand in the direction of her desk, where the fish was swimming around in a bowl. (The bowl wasn't overly small for the fish, but it could definitely stand to be bigger.) "Sorry. It shouldn't take too much room when I'm done, which shouldn't be too long from now."

[kenselvren]

Jalian shrugged; she didn't mind technological clutter. She picked her way across the floor to look at the fish up close. "It's pretty. Is it a pet or a person?"

[goforthe_optics]

"Pet," Tali answered. "Though if I had gotten it here in town, I might not be so sure."

No, really, had there ever been a case of a student just never reverting to their usual form, and they ended up at the pet shop somehow?