IC Contact - Consignment

[forgivetheinsubordination]

vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
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[forgivetheinsubordination]

Obviously, if she's sending you at me.

[Because it's clear now that's what happened - Tali had been worried and sent Shepard instead of sending Garrus a flood of text messages explaining or something. Is she really that frightened? Of him? He'll need to message her, but not until he's fully cooled off, and has more grasp of the situation.]

Being hit with the inability to breathe as your body shuts down seems to do that. Krios started pulling away after it too. Similar way, actually. Away from us. Toward...

[He waves at the ship.]

I get wanting to not have the Flotilla associated with it. Makes sense, even. If that's what's driving her, then good. Question is, is it all?

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[And see, that's the part that rankles. Shepard fixes him with a pointed look, something in her expression going flat as the line of her chin tips up - a minute kind of challenge.]

Do you really think Tali is the kind of person you need to worry about that with?

[The kind of person to feel any kind of loyalty to the sort of organization the CDC is or the people running it from the top down. Shepard doesn't care what comes out off Tali's mouth; it's going to take more than a name change to convince her that Tali's falling in line out of a sense of complacency or apathy. Not ever and especially not after what she'd seen at shuttle rendezvous with the neraki.]

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[Garrus' eyes narrow.]

Did you speak with her, just after?

[After the cuff punishment. When all Tali had been was a bundle of fear just wanting to avoid punishment again. When she'd clearly been desperate.]

Do you really think I spent so many years at C-Sec and can't figure out when someone's gonna recover easily and when someone might not? She was hurting, Shepard, and running scared. Believe me. I wouldn't worry about Tali without a damn good cause, and it was there.

[Tali's the kind of person who has wanted her homeworld back her whole life, who had it promised to her by her father... and has lost that father and knows that if she messes up Rannoch gets lost too. She's not fickle. But she's got a lot to lose and they'd but been in a great deal of pain that day.]