Solus can feel the power in the Time Traveller. He hasn't experienced their race yet, but he can feel her mortality, the effect on time around them... and the potential for a decent energy source.

"I could enslave you. Keep you.. like cattle." He darts a look toward Ashi as he speaks, and approaches her.

"That won't work." He indicates Ashi's blaster, and as she hesitates, he raises a hand and knocks it away from her. "But cattle are stupid, slow, boring. They lack... joy-de-vivre." Saying that, he places a hand on Ashi's forehead, almost paternally, and swiftly starts to drain her.