"Yeah, but have you met an adult one?" Jack challenged, "Most of the ones you meet around the galaxy are in the Maiden stage and that's totally different from when they hit the fucking 'Mysterious Matron Who Knows All But Won't Share The Secrets' stage and think they know better about every-fucking-thing than everyone else. It's a goddamn racial trait."

It was annoying.

She gave him another up and down and then she snickered. "If you thought it was just the blue, you're dead fucking wrong. New genome. I'm surprised you didn't get swarmed."