It wasn't something she'd just forget about - there were too many things she still blamed herself for that she knew somewhere inside weren't her fault for it to be something she could let go with Niko.

For now, though, she did. Through the next car trip where she stared out the window, asked a dozen stupid questions about parking meters, subways and licence plates. Through stopping by a residential building and watching Niko's family, the couple she recognised from pictures and their chubby, happy daughter. They looked so unbearably happy together that for a moment she had to swallow back acid jealousy that bit her throat as she and Niko watched from the shadows, two people who might never get to have anything like this, whether they wanted it or not.

But when they reached the run down, ancient looking shop full of what Tali could only think of as antiques, she was hiding a bemused grin as Niko sat down.

"These are computers?" she mumbled so no one would hear, and her staring at the row of flickering contraptions was nothing short of fascinated. Leaning her head on his shoulder, arm slung around him, she watched what he was doing interestedly without understanding a word on the screen.