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Mar had been watching the show with great intent. As they all paused in the conversational exchange, she squatted down and got to the character’s level. “We are a presence inside you that hurts. For that, we are truly sorry. If you can help us get out of here, you wouldn’t be hurting anymore. You’d feel better. And we can set a barrier so that no one else hurts you by accident.” She was trying to wrack her brain around some movie, book or Holo program that could be used for reference of what they hoped to achieve. But nothing was coming to mind.

Mar CNS

The Ferengi regarded Mar, “..Hurt? No pain? No hurting? Only headache in communication from you not bartering a deal! You want something we got? Then you give something for it!” It said the Ferengi pupated by the blob gain a wide sharp toothy grin.

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“It looks like they’ve been trying to communicate with us all along.” Doctor Stacey stated quietly, slightly unsettled that it was able to portray a Ferengi so accurately. Frankly, Gavin wasn’t sure they wanted anything from the blob besides leaving. He thought that would at least be a barter if they promised to leave the blob alone.

“What would you give us for your release?” The doctor asked, hoping to turn the tables.

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The blob paused again digesting this information. The Ferengi then split with another tendril coming out of its torso, the smaller tendril expanded flashing through several different forms of things. Over the next two minutes, a wide variety of static shapes formed, some looked like books, others looked like different people both known or otherwise, others looked like ships known or otherwise, still more looked like shapes of food or the like. After another moment of repeating this the smaller tendril slurped back into the Fernegi puppet and it grinned toothily at the group again, “..What’cha want?” it said.

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