FROM: parker@cdc.org i don't need a healing ability.
[ Because this is a good moment to gripe on how superpowers and superheroes are bad. Whatever. Gives her something different to focus on other than the anxiety crawling up her neck.
There's a moment of no replies and then she sends another. ]
[That's... an odd response, but okay. He expects more than a few people to be on edge right now and Garrus can forgive a lot because of this.]
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Which would be why I want to find out why.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Actually I'd want to find out why even if I wasn't on the list. That's a long list, and some of them in particular stand out as people who would try not to mess up.
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Sure, but share the why if you find it out?
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Back early on, a Red I knew failed a mission. The lights on his cuff went out for thirty seconds when I was with him - why I think I know.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
He couldn't breathe, couldn't anything. Passed out in agony. Nanites did nothing during that I could see; he suffered the whole time he was conscious.
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i don't think i'll find out, but i'll share what i have.
FROM: parker@cdc.org
yeah, i remember a message dagger sent once. homework failed or something.
[ And then comes the intel she asked and her heart nearly stops. Shit, shit, shit. ]
FROM: parker@cdc.org
jesus christ. what the hell is wrong with them?!
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Do you want the long version or the short one? I'd be near Medical, or inject yourself the second you can't breathe. You won't have a lot of time.
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how much damage?
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A lot. An awful lot. Krios was one of the toughest guys I've ever known and it messed him up.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Without nanites I think it'd be lethal if you don't have some super healing ability.
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i don't need a healing ability.
[ Because this is a good moment to gripe on how superpowers and superheroes are bad. Whatever. Gives her something different to focus on other than the anxiety crawling up her neck.
There's a moment of no replies and then she sends another. ]
FROM: parker@cdc.org
you're on the list too.
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FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Which would be why I want to find out why.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Actually I'd want to find out why even if I wasn't on the list. That's a long list, and some of them in particular stand out as people who would try not to mess up.
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i'll contact you once i know anything.
FROM: parker@cdc.org
hold in there.
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I always do. You do the same.