"You have always been the circus act," Shepard knows when she's being sized up, but tired as she is, she hasn't the energy to find the last solitary damn she has left to give, "Hah."
We'll see, he said, and she coughed up a laugh for him. God, Thane used to talk like that; come to think of it, she'd heard that one out of Garrus more than once. What was it with snipers? Was it the loneliness that got to them, or just the work? Shepard liked her own work well enough, but it wasn't the same as having to spend all that time thinking about it. Making plans. Executing them. Executing people.
Not that she didn't ever see her way clear to the odd execution, but it was the salt on her meal, not the main course.
"So. Where you from?" Even still she felt that thread of kinship that had more to it than their shared species. They were old soldiers, and they both knew the score. No use in pretending that reality was any different than it was, after all, "I mean, obviously you're sharing oh-two with the rest of these glorified chimpanzees."
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We'll see, he said, and she coughed up a laugh for him. God, Thane used to talk like that; come to think of it, she'd heard that one out of Garrus more than once. What was it with snipers? Was it the loneliness that got to them, or just the work? Shepard liked her own work well enough, but it wasn't the same as having to spend all that time thinking about it. Making plans. Executing them. Executing people.
Not that she didn't ever see her way clear to the odd execution, but it was the salt on her meal, not the main course.
"So. Where you from?" Even still she felt that thread of kinship that had more to it than their shared species. They were old soldiers, and they both knew the score. No use in pretending that reality was any different than it was, after all, "I mean, obviously you're sharing oh-two with the rest of these glorified chimpanzees."