[Hesitation is rare in her - not really Shepard's color, thanks - but for a second in shows in the wary way she settles back in her chair, a brief flicker in how she looks from him to the cards in his hands and back again. It's a sore subject for any number of reasons, but what breeds the pause is the fact that she knows a majority of recruits got duped by whatever rep had brought them on - asked them some stupid question and they'd gone without knowing the extent of what they were answering.

Her recruiter had been pretty damn forward. That hadn't changed her mind. It's possible most of the crew would find that tacky.]

That the CDC knew what it was doing and was good at it. If I worked with them to get rid of some planets that weren't contributing to 'the well being of the universe' they could use their tech to take problem of a problem back home. [A beat. A short one. All raw irony:] --Oh and that they polled pretty high in employee satisfaction.