Garrus Vakarian (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
forgivetheinsubordination) wrote2037-04-27 09:49 pm
forgivetheinsubordination) wrote2037-04-27 09:49 pm
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IC Contact - Consignment
vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
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We've been able to send a message before, even if we couldn't get one back. And this time we've got the name of a ship. You might be able to communicate with him. It couldn't hurt to ask.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
The list is better than it could have been, and worse than it should have been.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Think it might be pretty important to keep in mind that the neraki overpowered a dragon, and not underestimate them.
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You think so?
[A glimmer of hope is better than none, he supposes.]
FROM: cecil.guy@cdc.org
I'll see if I can't bother one of the instructors, then. Thanks, Garrus.
FROM: cecil.guy@cdc.org
You're right about the list. But there's been something that's been bugging me about it.
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There's a chance. And anytime, Guy.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
What's bugging you?
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Someone's mentioned it already. For all we know, the paperwork's stuck in bureaucracy but... shouldn't that list should be longer?
FROM: cecil.guy@cdc.org
We had a lot of new recruits. A lot of people.
[People he knew.]
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I think they were temporarily with us. This would be the fourth time that we ran into other recruits, fourth time we were parted. Those three times, we saw some of them again later.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Twice on the planet on fire, once on Selena. Only reason I didn't think there might be a connection earlier was because they've never joined in our mission before.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
I figure we wait and see. Give it a few weeks. We might see some of them again. If we don't, then maybe they were just on loan to help us get the captives back.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
There someone in particular you're thinking about?
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You're right about that, actually. Now that I think about it, there were several recruits I ran into on Selena who didn't make it to the Neheda.
[Is it really down to a matter of waiting and hoping? Logically, he knows that's the best option right now. But Guy's heart and mind had a tendency to conflict with one another. Maybe a little too often.]
FROM: cecil.guy@cdc.org
I'm really obvious about this, aren't I? Yeah. I ran into a few friends from home.
FROM: cecil.guy@cdc.org
You can imagine my surprise.
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Only obvious because I've run into friends all four of the times. So I get it.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Mind if I ask who they were? Met a few new faces.
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FROM: cecil.guy@cdc.org
Man, I don't know if your luck's great or horrible.
FROM: cecil.guy@cdc.org
Luke fon Fabre. Redhead, swordsman. Jade Curtiss. Military man with red eyes. Anise Tatlin. She would've been carrying a doll on her back.
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Both. It's both.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
I'm sorry, Guy. I don't think I met any of them.
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It's fine. There was a lot going on when the new recruits arrived.
FROM: cecil.guy@cdc.org
You said you've run into your friends several times, now?
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There was.
[Like attacks, and kidnapping... There will never be a peaceful week here, he's pretty sure.]
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Yeah, though different ones at different times. It changes, and I'm starting to wonder if maybe they've got all of us here in different places.
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FROM: cecil.guy@cdc.org
This is all over my head. [He's not afraid to admit that.] I understand the CDC can pick up anyone from any world. But from a different time? That's a headache waiting to happen.
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FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
If you can already cross universes, why not time? And parallel universes, too. Not all of us remember the same thing.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
From big things to little. I remember a death that someone else doesn't. Someone else remembered me seeing someone that I'm not involved with.
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Thing 1 and Thing 2Peter Parker illustrated this point well.]FROM: cecil.guy@cdc.org
Hell, it's not exactly something we can avoid, either.
FROM: cecil.guy@cdc.org
Doesn't it get you wondering if you'll run into yourself one of these days?
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If I do, I hope it's a future me that can tell me we won our war.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Really don't wanna run into a past me.
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That makes the two of us.
FROM: cecil.guy@cdc.org
Though, I don't know. I'm not sure if I'd like to meet a future version of myself, either.
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Think of the things your future self can tell you. Like it gets better. Or worse.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
At least forewarned is forearmed.
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I wonder. It'd be convenient to know the future. But that can lead to dependency.
FROM: cecil.guy@cdc.org
You could become obsessed with attaining a favorable future, or in destroying an unpleasant one. Sometimes, ignorance is bliss.
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You just gotta keep your focus clear. The harm in that scenario isn't knowing. It's misusing what you know.
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FROM: cecil.guy@cdc.org
It sounds easy when you put it like that.
FROM: cecil.guy@cdc.org
Not that it's bad.
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Easier said than managed, but with practice, not as hard as you think it might be.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Choose the perspective you want to see through.
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FROM: cecil.guy@cdc.org
You're right about that, at least. It makes me wonder if I'm overdue for a new one.
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Just make sure you stay true to yourself when you figure out how to look at this. That's more important than just about anything else.
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What was he to do when every inch of him was yelling at him to ditch the Neheda to find them? Even though he reminds himself about what it'd spell for Auldrant, this dangerous fear won't go away. Who was he supposed to help, here? His friends who weren't from his time, or his planet and those friends?
But Garrus is right. What matters is a decision that won't keep him up at night with regret.]
FROM: cecil.guy@cdc.org
Thanks, Garrus. I think I needed to hear that.
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Anytime you need to talk, Guy, you know where to find me.