[Garrus sighs and then signals to the bartender that he's ready for a beer again. This is definitely that sort of a topic.]

She was.

[But not quite how Steve means it, he thinks. He's pretty sure most people have no idea how many of the young he'd started to look after. It's better that way, safer for them, because then they won't get hurt by someone going after him. Steve, though. Steve isn't that sort. He's not going to hurt people.

There's a pause while he waits for the beer to arrive, while he opens it, before he takes a sip. His voice is weary.]

Lost a few of mine, now. Teach what I can, help how I can, and we're still losing them.

[Who's next? Tsunayoshi? Red? Ed? Green? Jean? He's got several he looks after but he's never in enough places at once. Maya, Ino, Zuko, Ichigo, there's a whole list of names that keeps growing because the CDC keeps pulling in kids who don't know what they're doing or even how to do it.]

And Lydia wasn't mine, but she was a friend. Shared a rover, for a time. We were gonna figure out a way to use her ability to help the crew.

[Death is almost always a waste. This is no exception.]