"I wasn't criticizing," Shepard says mildly. "Hell, I might have a job offer for you when this is all over." She doesn't think the supernatural really applies back home, but the guy knows how to build portable nuclear reactors with 21st century technology. The 22nd century could use a mind like that.

Of course, first they have to live through today, and they are vastly outnumbered. What the Spoken can't accomplish through whatever limited tactical skill they have, they might manage through press of their half-made bodies. "If they get our backs to a wall, things are going to get ugly." Uglier. Whatever. "Right flank looks weaker. Blow through that and we can both make a run for it."