[She's already stepping towards her bed - there's an odd sort of ache in the back of her throat, and she knows what that means only too well - when she turns back momentarily.]
[Garrus pauses half-way out the door, glancing back. He wishes the news had been better. But this war, in all of its facets, doesn't give them any better. It definitely doesn't give any of them what they want.
He gives her a nod.]
You've got it, Tali.
[At least they can have each other, and each other's backs.]
If you'd fucked up, Armada would tell you. And I mean really tell you, not passive-aggressively tell you through lead assignments. I mean honestly, does that sound like Armada at all?
Keeping it together so as I don't fall apart after my death sentence.
FROM: devan.isha@cdc.org
Think what you may of the CDC, but rarely do they deal in consequences without a reason for it. This business wouldn't work well if it were built on countless bodies of their own.
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