Aya, an assassin.
A few years ago …
“Heard a rumor today. Seems there’s talk we’re lovers.”
“Love spending time with you, Aya, so yes, of course. Xenos, in humanspace Syndicate … of course are stick together, but enjoying it.”
“I think they were talking about other sorts of ‘sticking together’.”
“What, like breeding lovers?” Twigs cocks his head. “Do not think that is biologically possible with you.”
“Humans always seem to ignore inconvenient facts like that. They see two non-humans who enjoy one another’s company, and their minds go all kinky porno.”
“Have seen what they do for breeding? Seems very … unsanitary.”
“And all of it for only a handful of offspring at a time. Wasteful.”
Yae raises an eyebrow. “Anyway. am glad not every race as obsessed with breeding exercises as humans.”
“Oh, agreed, agreed.”
They sit in frustrated silence for a while.
At length, Aya reaches over, lifts a rocket, and slides it across the matrixboard. “Threat. Win in four moves.”
Yae grins. “Ha! Now gets interesting!”
Aya is a female xeno, a bipedal insectile form, though she nearly always wears a full body environmental suit / armor, a distinctive red in default color (though it has camo circuits all the way to Predator-style “invisible”).
She and Yae struck up a friendship in the Syndicate back in the human Core Worlds, and still do each other favors from time to time.
via Halo 5