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Who: Anyone
When: Day 84, Morning
Where: Wherever
What: Mingle!

[At some point during the early hours Eizon's Directory flickered for a several minutes before finally turning to nothing but static. I hope you remembered who gives soap, Thusia. Otherwise, the morning has started off uneventful.]

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Tsk...

[Rubs her face with her gauntlet-covered hands. Not ideal considering the dried blood and dirt, but she doesn't care. It's not like she could look worse than she does already.]

How did Tali react?

Not great, better than I had expected. There were more than a few hugs, all things considered.

[He'll put a hand on her shoulder.]

Shepard, you couldn't have predicted that would happen.

I don't like soldiers dying under my command. Friends...

[Doesn't shrug off his hand but she can't look at him, staring at the floor.]

[He'll have a seat beside her on the lizagon but not let go of her shoulder.]

We knew there would be casualties, Shepard. We all knew there was a chance we wouldn't walk away from this. I'm not angry or upset that I died, that was only a matter of when and where, so don't beat yourself up about it.

You're not responsible for what happened to me, that is my own damned fault. If I hadn't been on Earth, well, I could've been in one of the frigates or died back on Palaven.

[He'll chuckle.]

If you hadn't shown up on Omega, I'd certainly be dead by now.

[Takes a deep breath and nods. There's a very small chuckle on the exhale.]

You survived a missile to the face. If you weren't here now, I'd still be convinced you were invincible.

[Leaning forward slightly, elbows on her knees and her knuckle on her temple, finally managing to look at him.]

Might not be much comfort, but there's no one I'd rather be dead with than you and Tali. Obviously, I'd rather neither of you died, but...

[Trails off, shaking her head and sitting back up proper.]

Guess I'm stuck with you, huh?

[Garrus will laugh at that.]

I don't think I'm invincible, stubborn, but not invincible. Besides, did you really think it'd be so easy to get rid of me? I said we were in it until the end, guess that end just seems to extend a little further than we originally thought.

I'll be honest, I'd rather be dead and here with you and Tali than dead and waiting around for you two to show up at that bar.

Yeah, same...

How long have you been here? Anything tried to eat you yet?

About ten days or so, I've been able to keep out of the worst of the trouble. Ran into some pollen and was high as a kite for a while, or so Tali told me. I don't really remember much outside of being really relaxed.

[That was only slightly embarrassing.]

Damn, wish I'd been around to see that!

[Cackles and leans back slightly then frowns. Ten days?]

I've not really been around very much. I thought I'd been the only one to die. Then Tali turned up and I was so sure that'd be it...

Sorry I wasn't here to greet you.

Don't worry about it, Tali dragged me to her loft for a bit before we tried to find a new place. I don't mind sleeping on floors, but you start to get a crick in your neck after a while.

Mm, it's getting a bit crowded. But I'm sure we can get you something more comfortable with this thing.

[Nudges the dead lizagon it with the heel of her boot]

You're welcome to stay as long as you need or want. You know that, right?

I'm not even sure what this is, reminds me of one of the creatures back on Palaven, but I won't bore you with the details.

[He'll look at the dead lizagon and give it a nudge more than slightly glad it's dead.]

Thanks for the offer Shepard, it'll be nice having somewhere to have as a home base again.

Anytime, Garrus.

[Pushes herself to her feet and offers him a hand up. Then something occurs to her, she's forgetting a certain someone.]

... Have you met Chris?

Ah, I think I actually met him when I was high on pollen. Tali still won't tell me exactly how he knows me, guess I'll just have to ask him myself.

[He'll take her offered hand and stand.]

[Rubs the back of her neck with her other hand. She's not sure it's her place to say and Tali was pretty annoyed she had to find out from someone else other than the pair of them.]

Yeah, about that...

Why do I have a feeling I'm not going to like the answer?

[He'll watch her, you're shit at keeping secrets Shep.]

[Am not! '^'

There's a few moments when she looks like she's about to say something and stops. It's not usual that she gets stuck for words and saying this never gets any easier.]

Ah, screw it.

He is me. My double. Alternate universe.

Your double.

[Garrus will stare at her in disbelief. Well, after rogue AI's, talking sentient space ships of death, telepathic arachnids, tank born krogan, and indoctrinated jellyfish. This actually makes a line of sense if he were coming at it from a string theory kind of sense.]

Somewhere in the multitude of universes you have a double that's male? And after the unshackled AI and indoctrinated jellyfish I thought I'd seen and heard of everything.

Afraid not, big guy. Want to know why this building's in a tree? It flew and planted itself here!

[small pause]

And before you say anything: no, I'm not high.

I didn't think you were, not after I arrived to see Tali with a hole nearly clean through her.

As for this building, I just thought that these gods enjoyed nature a little too much.

As far as I know, we've been brought in to be pest-control. I think they enjoy the nature here as much as we do.

Pest control, how fitting. Seems that's what we're best at, just these pests seem...smaller.

[Smiles, he makes a good point.]

I haven't faced anything as big or as challenging as a Reaper yet, so we should be good.

Good, not like those were a pain of anything to fight. I guess these things must be like kittens in comparison.

[He'll give the lizagon a poke with his toes.]

I wouldn't say kittens... but yeah, they're easier. Even in groups.

[Looking at it with a frown, scratching at a cut on her face.]