Physiology. Feeding. Blood. These were things Alessa understood someone like Nanashi and Sam needed, but for a demon like Alessa, the truth was a bit more complicated. The talk of blood she could understand easily enough. Different things consumed things in their own ways.

"I feed on chaos, death...that is why I went to this away mission. Killing random people in allies is not how I usually work. I'm in the fight, crushing, ripping, destroying the enemy. I cannot do that in secret. If you can do this on the planet, good luck to you. But I would wonder how that might sit with those security people on the ship."