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.
Then you better damn well start learning them despite whether you like them or not because this entire thing is half politics and half murder and most of the time it's hard to tell where one starts and one ends.
I'm already committing genocide. I am not going to become someone who can't be trusted because they don't say what they mean and sometimes don't mean what they say on top of that.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
My job as a Green is to protect. And I will. I will protect, I'll remain trustworthy. I'll fight. I refuse to trip people up or manipulate.
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Hell is one way to put it. I don't suppose Warriorhead said anything to you about which group you fell in?
[He'd ask his instructor, but...]
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
It's gonna be bad, Isha.
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I've made it a point to stay away from him until he's found it in himself to be with the rest of us.
FROM: devan.isha@cdc.org
I know. This is not meant to be taken lightly.
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So he's still stressed. Guess I shouldn't be surprised.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Can't really be taken seriously when you don't know what the fuck went wrong, either.
[He's angry. Very angry.]
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Whether you choose to take it seriously or not is not my concern. I bloody well don't know what went wrong either but it doesn't matter at this point.
FROM: devan.isha@cdc.org
As much as I would like answers I am not focused on that right now.
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I prefer my punishments and torture to have a reason. Without that, this is just bullying. Pain for the sake of pain.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
What are you focused on?
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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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Tell that to the crew of the Almina who weren't a part of any plot. Because I doubt every single collared person we saw on the vids was a part of it.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
And you're saying this to someone who has been demoted twice and told both times he did nothing wrong.
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Rarely being an operative word.
FROM: devan.isha@cdc.org
I wasn't aware of that.
[As much as she could potentially pick apart what he could've done, she's in no mood right now.]
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Not so sure that it's rare, is the thing.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
You know what's coming? Because I have a guess.
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Righteous retribution? A follow-up lesson? A loss in ranks?
FROM: devan.isha@cdc.org
There are many things that could happen, Garrus.
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I mean the thirty-second surprise.
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Mm. That detail. Given the propensity for torture I can only imagine it will be something bodily harmful and excruciating.
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Thanks to Dagger's clues I'm pretty sure that's exactly what it will be.
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Lucky for me I've had a dose of being stabbed multiple times with many knives. I'm sure it'll be wonderful.
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And I've taken a rocket to the face. Have no desire to go through that again, or this.
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You say that as if you have a choice in the matter.
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If the CDC 'rarely' dealt in consequences without a reason, I would.
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The long game is not your strong suit, is it?
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Games aren't my strong suit, Devan. Politics, varrenshit, they're not what I do, and they're not anything I appreciate.
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Then you better damn well start learning them despite whether you like them or not because this entire thing is half politics and half murder and most of the time it's hard to tell where one starts and one ends.
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No.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
I'm already committing genocide. I am not going to become someone who can't be trusted because they don't say what they mean and sometimes don't mean what they say on top of that.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
My job as a Green is to protect. And I will. I will protect, I'll remain trustworthy. I'll fight. I refuse to trip people up or manipulate.
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Did I tell you to start manipulating? I told you to learn it, not do it. Learn the rules, then protect others by warning them of the rules.
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FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
I don't even know where to start learning.
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You watch. You listen. Everything that you hate so much about manipulating you will need to do. How do you think our kind get so good?
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Back to what I said. I'm not gonna be that person. I'm not gonna do those things. I'll watch and listen, but I'm not going to play games.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
They make me in their image and I've lost.
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