Along with the fear was a suspicion he hadn't expected. It made sense, of course - Quarians weren't exactly welcome in most parts of the galaxy, and Kaltus doubted c-sec had let her go without at the very least an examination - but it still felt like a slap to his face. He, personally, hadn't done anything wrong, and she really seemed to believe he was going to abuse the law to manipulate her through racial profiling. He would just have to prove her wrong. But first she was going to have to prove the accusations placed against her wrong, and that wasn't going to be easy.

She asked if she had rights, and it completely caught him off guard. "Ma'am, every citizen on the citadel has rights. Hanar, Krogan, Turian, Asari, Human, Quarian or any other species, it doesn't matter." He was about to raise a complaint about her insult, but did his best to stay silent instead. There was a good reason for her to be upset, and she was only going to get more upset when he broke the news to her. All he could hope is that she was going to believe him when he said he was going to try and help her.

Once he walked out of the crowd he turned to see she was right there, to his relief. Things would have gotten bad if she had tried to run. "I don't know how to tell you this, ma'am, but you've been accused of both murder and petty theft. Now," he held up his hand to silence any protests she may have, "my job tells me that I have to take you in and, if I'm lucky, I could help on the investigation and try to figure out what actually happened.

"Frankly, my job can go to hell. If I take you back, I'm not going to wind up working on the investigation, I know that much, and I know that nobody else is going to care about the freedom and rights of a Quarian. This can either go two ways: One, I do my job and you're probably going to spend the rest of your life rotting in a cell. Two, I take you somewhere safe, tell my superiors you evaded arrest and escaped and you're going to persuade to me you're absolute innocence. If I believe you, I'll go find evidence and present it before you ever have to get into a cell. If I don't, well, I'll just hand you over to my boss like I'm supposed to."

He had thought all of that up on the top of his head. It was true, he could easily get fired for his behavior - this was far beyond against regulations - but he wouldn't let an innocent person go to jail, and with a Quarian that could all too easily happen. He served the people, not c-sec and their damned rulebook, and hopefully she could see that.