Real Life (Minifill) 1/2
anonymous
November 4 2012, 23:39:14 UTC
(the times indicate who's speaking, roughly)
It was Diana Allers that finally asked that one question that they’d all been carrying around, inspecting every now and again, but otherwise trying to ignore it. Like a rock stuck in your boot in the middle of a firefight. It was easier to pretend it wasn’t there until there was someone to point out you were limping and had been for quite some time now.
The reporter even brought her camera along, possibly an ingrained habit of her own. So Shepard could, if she was so inclined, watch it and hear them quietly questioning her sanity. The snippets of answers from her friends, the ultimately irrelevant questions.
///0800
Garrus rubbed beneath his eyes, gingerly. A gesture turians never did. “So you noticed that, huh? The constant repetitive questions. The silences. Sometimes, I think the silences are the worse.
“Hm?
“Oh, yeah, she’ll do that. Ask you that same question immediately after having heard the answer. You can tell her your busy, eventually she’ll go away.
“The staring. She’s thinking. No, no, she blinks.
“Maybe she’s hard of hearing? There’s a lot of gunfire around her, and she never wears earplugs.”
///0314
“I guess you could say Shepard is eccentric.”
Liara rubbed an arm, unsure of how to begin explaining things. Or some reluctance at implying flaws in the Commander. “I wasn’t sure if all humans did that, at first. I hadn’t spent much time around her species.
“Then I learned better.
“I don’t really know. I’m not that kind of doctor.”
///0634
“PTSD.” Williams didn’t pause, as she broke down her rifle for cleaning. “…that’s what we’re pretty sure it is.”
///1542
Tali fidgeted more than usual. “Constantly. She always leads the way, and has a terrible sense of direction. I swear she spends hours looking at omni-tool for the map. Sometimes she’ll run into a wall, then walk like nothing happened.
“But she’s never been late. Always she manages to save the day. No matter how long it takes us to finally do anything on the Citadel.
“She won’t see this interview, right?”
///1467
Vega didn’t make eye contact with the camera. “Sometimes, she’s like a marionette doll. And I don’t want to know what’s controlling her.”
It was Diana Allers that finally asked that one question that they’d all been carrying around, inspecting every now and again, but otherwise trying to ignore it. Like a rock stuck in your boot in the middle of a firefight. It was easier to pretend it wasn’t there until there was someone to point out you were limping and had been for quite some time now.
The reporter even brought her camera along, possibly an ingrained habit of her own. So Shepard could, if she was so inclined, watch it and hear them quietly questioning her sanity. The snippets of answers from her friends, the ultimately irrelevant questions.
///0800
Garrus rubbed beneath his eyes, gingerly. A gesture turians never did. “So you noticed that, huh? The constant repetitive questions. The silences. Sometimes, I think the silences are the worse.
“Hm?
“Oh, yeah, she’ll do that. Ask you that same question immediately after having heard the answer. You can tell her your busy, eventually she’ll go away.
“The staring. She’s thinking. No, no, she blinks.
“Maybe she’s hard of hearing? There’s a lot of gunfire around her, and she never wears earplugs.”
///0314
“I guess you could say Shepard is eccentric.”
Liara rubbed an arm, unsure of how to begin explaining things. Or some reluctance at implying flaws in the Commander. “I wasn’t sure if all humans did that, at first. I hadn’t spent much time around her species.
“Then I learned better.
“I don’t really know. I’m not that kind of doctor.”
///0634
“PTSD.” Williams didn’t pause, as she broke down her rifle for cleaning. “…that’s what we’re pretty sure it is.”
///1542
Tali fidgeted more than usual. “Constantly. She always leads the way, and has a terrible sense of direction. I swear she spends hours looking at omni-tool for the map. Sometimes she’ll run into a wall, then walk like nothing happened.
“But she’s never been late. Always she manages to save the day. No matter how long it takes us to finally do anything on the Citadel.
“She won’t see this interview, right?”
///1467
Vega didn’t make eye contact with the camera. “Sometimes, she’s like a marionette doll. And I don’t want to know what’s controlling her.”
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