[There is a long, long stretch of silence. Garrus doesn't get how this is possible, and he also doesn't know how to approach it. This isn't just dealing with what Thane doesn't know, this is dealing with Thane's son and that mess there, and Garrus has no experience with this side of the father-son divide.]

Uh. Okay.

[It's filler, and Thane needs far more than that, but sometimes Garrus needs to talk to get his thoughts going.]

We're... You didn't vanish. I don't know where this even starts to make sense, but you were there all along. The whole mission. I... Damn. I don't know what to tell you. How much you want to know, or any of it. The good news, the bad news, the pointless stuff like if Shepard ever managed to keep a fish alive.

She didn't, by the way. Chambers had to start taking care of that.