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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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    31 Dec 2024

  2. Public Bookmark 11

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    Now an older woman, Li Lan waits.

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    22 May 2024

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    She'd woken up in an unrecognizable galaxy, jammed together from spare parts, a Cerberus logo stamped on her ass. She'd been handed a beautiful, expensive, top-of-the-line mockery of her old ship, crewed by beautiful, expensive, top-of-the-line terrorists.

    The Alliance wanted her to shut up and go back to being conveniently dead. Kaidan, it seemed, felt the same way. Anderson was the only family she'd ever had, and he wouldn't even answer her emails.

    And either Shepard's sanity had splintered under the stress, or she was now some kind of unkillable demigod. Or both.

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    17 Mar 2024

  4. Public Bookmark 13

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    Shepard ground her teeth and watched Garrus lever open another barrel. She got it. She really, really did. It didn't make it any easier. Especially not when James was there twenty meters off, kicking up dust in a sullen, angry cloud, expressing with a twist of his mouth and a contemptuous flip-snap of his omni-blade all the things she wished she could say herself.

    Garrus was calm and steady as a sunrise, and James Vega itched like a scab, and that was why she brought them both down here to this shitty moon today, because she knew herself well enough to know that she was losing it.

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    In the thick of the Reaper war, as planets melt under their combined might, Shepard takes her most and least experienced squadmates out to hunt for a morale boost.

    A belated gift for Ginbiscuit for Holiday Harbinger 2021 :)

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    16 Mar 2024

  5. Public Bookmark 43

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    It's hot on the Normandy. Really, really hot. Something's gone wrong after the return from the Omega-4 relay, and the ship is slowly cooking them alive. While engineering scrambles to fix the problem, the Commander and her— partner? sex friend? whatever the hell he is— and the rest of the crew are all at loose ends. Sweaty, irritable, and with absolutely nothing to do.

    So of course, it turns into a cage match.

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    16 Mar 2024