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I don't think we'll get answers either. Dagger wouldn't have been so cryptic if we were gonna get them. Which implies they don't have any particular feedback to give on this one, really.

[And they're back to fear as a motivation. Every conversation he has about this seems to loop back to that.]

This isn't the way anyone I've ever followed would lead. Really don't know how they expect to get any positive results from it. People who react out of fear of punishment are a step closer to broken, and aren't as effective. Not only that, they know they're not appreciated. That they don't matter. Any results the CDC gets here aren't going to be as good as they could be with constructive treatment.

Dagger's normally the most forthcoming out of all of them, isn't he? [at least, from what he's seen of his responses to people anyway.]

I've been in this position before - can't exactly say I enjoyed it either. But you know, Garrus, when your options are 'do or die', there's very few reasons for someone to lash out regardless of how confusing or frightening the situation is.

Someone might want us to break. The expectation is that all of us will pull together and carry through regardless, and hopefully an explanation will be found somewhere in between.

I'm not sure if they thought we mattered in the first place. After all, the only thing we truly own in this place are our contracts, nothing more.

[Garrus snorts.]

Dagger's better than Gliese or Neheda or Honey when it comes to answers, but Warriorhead and Armada are more reliable as far as giving an answer that's actually useful. No real clue on Ghost. Spoke with him... twice, I think. Never with Hornet, Flux, or Gale. But you're probably right on the other. We won't matter to them for a while yet.

[Not until they've been around for a hundred years at least. Not until the instructors decide they may just be sticking around. And maybe not even then. It's entirely possible none of them will matter ever. The Normandy's crew had added more to their roster and welcomed them in, but Neheda has nothing on Shepard.]

And I'm not sure we're expected to pull together as opposed to pulling apart.

[erwin thinks about what garrus tells him about the instructors. he actually finds gliese and warriorhead similar in terms of their responses - what he's seen and heard, anyway - and as gliese is captain, that she never answers things satisfactorily doesn't really bother him as much considering she's not obligated to do that; and erwin himself has certainly been in the same position, so he's sort of more willing to let that pass. but armada, given that armada heads green, tends to have a more direct way of speaking, like dagger. and he's never found ghost to be cryptic, though he tends to omit a lot of things.

he's never spoken to gale, so he can't really comment on him.]

We'll do what we have to, either way. After two planets, I think people are more inclined to look after each other, given what we go through and what others have gone through. [an amused smile; curiously, he asks - ]

Do you think of this as home?

[He watches Erwin for a few moments after he's spoken, noting that the guy doesn't give his impression of the instructors back. Interesting. It's not like he's a fan of this punishment, so Garrus doesn't think Erwin is the sort to go report what Garrus has said, but there's a lack of comparison there. It feels like something Garrus should keep in the back of his mind.

He's also not as confident in everyone looking after each other. In every group you have your ambitious ones, and what's more is this punishment has just singled out a fair portion of the camp, has just highlighted their names and some people will edge away from that.]

The CDC? As home? When I'm the only turian in this crew and they'll drop me on a whim?

[Garrus snorts.]

No. Do you?

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