[And there's the shadow in his eyes again, for the briefest moment, before he's shrugging and gesturing for her to go ahead and really come in, closing the door behind her.]

A turian, or a pile of turians? We complain a lot; I can't imagine a whole stack of us would go over well. Plus there's the whole pointy thing. Now a stack of salarians, you probably won't risk poking your eyes out with them. They'll wriggle, and likely spout scientific data at you, but they should squish well enough.