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    Her own personal Noverian peak. That’s what it was supposed to be. Nothing but the discovery: no distractions, no comfort, no windows looking out—no familiar faces. But it's starting to look like her winning streak might have ended in that pile of Citadel rubble, if it ever extended that far to begin with.

    In which Shepard doesn’t want to be found, and Garrus, of course, has other ideas.

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    One polished pauldron bobs. “How does the Earth idiom go? No use beating a dead—” A long-suffering sigh. “What was it again?”

    “A dead horse. And yet, you’re here. Beating it.”

    Pot, kettle. She wishes he’d just fucking say it.

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    22 Mar 2024

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    Ch 8

  2. Rec 10

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    This is the Terminus. There are no happy endings.

    (Not a standalone. Sequel to Two Strangers Meet at the Edge of the Galaxy and Two Strangers Reunite at the Edge of the Galaxy)

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    16 Aug 2024

  3. Public Bookmark 27

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    Garrus and Shepard never talked about what would happen between them if they survived the Collector Base. And yet here they find themselves, alive and rather unsure of how to proceed.

    Against the backdrop of the DLC content of Mass Effect 2, Garrus Vakarian and Andrea Shepard attempt to plan for a future they never thought they'd see, even while haunted by the pasts they'd tried to leave behind.

    So much stands in the way: rank, duty, family, and more than a few scars. What chance does this casual cross-species liaison have in the face of such opposition?

    (This is a sequel to "Practice," but can be read as a stand-alone.)

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    10 Jun 2024

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    A woman, not alive and not dead, stands at the end of a road of compromises in an underworld written in the quantum qubits of a machine god’s mind. The stars spin overhead, too large and too close, kaleidoscoping colors she didn’t know existed before. They speak with the voices of aeons. Chaos and order exist in oppositional states, they say. There can be no peace without control.

    She's about to prove them wrong. (Post ME-3 Control Ending).

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    03 May 2024

  5. Public Bookmark 76

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    Delia Shepard, traumatized and addicted to red sand after Torfan, has found a quiet-- albeit boring-- life on the Citadel as a Drugs and Trafficking Officer. When one of her informants is found dead in an alley, she's forced to team up with Detective Garrus Vakarian: an unfeeling, stiff, full of himself douche. But as they work together, they find that a dead mole is the least of their issues. Trouble is brewing, enemies are at every turn. And to top it all off, Shepard has sworn off friendships completely after the Alliance. So why can she barely function without Vakarian?

    In another dark corner of the Citadel, Archangel has decided to sign up for an anonymous sex club. What's the worst that can happen? He's matched with a human he knows only as the Commander, someone who he can demand to obey his every rule and whim. As their meetings progress, Archangel finds himself getting closer and closer to the Commander. Can lust turn into something more substantial?

    Essentially, the plot of Mass Effect if Shepard was not on Eden Prime, mixed with the love child of You've Got Mail and Fifty Shades of Grey.

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    30 Sep 2023

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    Chapter 30