Talk:Ballas/@comment-2003:E5:83DA:9153:F136:261F:A367:23C2-20180108033714/@comment-2003:E5:83DA:9197:FD68:B1D9:667E:2A1C-20180126215204



There are actually two things why she would leave with him that I thought of right from the start. Its either that a) Ballas would overcome her defences no matter what. or...and thats the more likely in my opinion: That Ballas offered something to her that she could not refuse.

Thats were "the Sacrifice" Trailer comes in "...for their life, yours." I assume, whatever that offer was, it had something to do with guaranteeing our survial or at least giving us a fighting chance against something. That something might be the man in the wall "without me, you are nothing.". Assuming that he is the source of our powers, it might mean he can turn it all off, including our ability of transference. Ballas, being more or less credited in taking an important role in designing the warframes, might have offered Lotus something (the umbra frames?) that counters, or works around the man in the walls abilities. Thats why she went with him, only offering a token effort to dissuade him from his idea that she is (or can become, see further down for that) margulis.

Another assumption along that way, she has taken on the physical form of margulis and he wants her body for the continuity ritual, which seems to work even after death (see the ordis story in the fragments, where the orokin sort of laughed about some of them being killed, like a mere nuisance).

Going back to our presence there and she offering no explanation to us. I assume she wanted a witness to see what transpired so we can pick up the trail, maybe hoping that we can break her out after we received the end of the deal she struck with Ballas. If she told us outright whats up we might have tried to rally to her defence, nixing the deal, or it was even Ballas request that we were left in the dark about the agreement and she snook us in as a "spy" masking our presence, which means she couldnt acknowledge us, to not give us away and Ballas could see us in the first place.