Moonspear who can blame him

Part of her didn't want to keep at this whole Liffey thing, but he'd asked, so Alya didn't feel bad in saying, "I think we need to think of a way to keep Liffey and Rannoch out of it first." Another part of her took great satisfaction in saying so - she knew that, when the pair did show their colors, she would remember this conversation. She hoped her father would as well, and that it would sting him. "And I think it would be better to kill her before she can make trouble for us. She's useless. Wraen and Terance assimilated just fine, but she's been deadweight since she's joined."

Again, she was sure to say this without rancor. Alya had been practicing at speaking as clinically as possible.

"I've met Vaati," she added, wondering what her father would think of this. "Whatever his problem with Rannoch was - and whatever he said about us to you - he seemed plenty willing to play nice." He had been plenty willing to do other things as well, but she felt, somehow, that it would not be appropriate to mention this to her father. What she did with her body was a secret she shared only with her sisters - and the lucky men that she met along the way.