[She takes half a step back--any more and she'll collide with the door--and drops her jaw against a hand, fingers curling and then opening again.]
Maybe you need to hover less, but I... I need to stop trying to prove myself so much. Nobody ever came out and said it, and I know I'm trusted just the same, but I... know I was always sort of the little one on the squad. The engineer girl on her Pilgrimage, the rookie researcher who scraped by on Haestrom by the skin of her teeth. [Not who got her team killed, not to Garrus, not here.
She sighs, the lifts her eyes to him, her voice genuinely softer now.]
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[She takes half a step back--any more and she'll collide with the door--and drops her jaw against a hand, fingers curling and then opening again.]
Maybe you need to hover less, but I... I need to stop trying to prove myself so much. Nobody ever came out and said it, and I know I'm trusted just the same, but I... know I was always sort of the little one on the squad. The engineer girl on her Pilgrimage, the rookie researcher who scraped by on Haestrom by the skin of her teeth. [Not who got her team killed, not to Garrus, not here.
She sighs, the lifts her eyes to him, her voice genuinely softer now.]
Apology accepted. You don't have to say anything.