ways_infirmary | Visiting Post for Commander Colene Shepard

Visiting Post for Commander Colene Shepard

The Milliways infirmary is a lot busier than usual, mostly because of the recent wave of nightmare-injuries. The aforesaid situation has turned one of the regularly attending doctors into a patient, so Zhaan has been spending a lot of extra time here.

Most of the patients are recovering just fine on their own, but Zhaan is watching the sleeping ones closely in case they have nightmare episodes and need to be woken up for their own safety. She also has a certain patient in with broken fingers and a concussion.

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"I know her name's Zhaan, but I don't know what species she is. I'd hold off on asking her until she's less busy.

"You met Tali? She was here a while ago...did she leave while I dozed off?"

"She said the doctor made her leave. Tali gave me the basic idea of the place, but it still confuses me to no end." He paced a bit, now, back and forth at the foot of her bed.

"The way she said it, she made it sound like you couldn't leave."

"I can't. The door doesn't exist for me. It does for Tali, but she doesn't want to leave me on my own here." Shepard can't understand why, although if their positions were reversed she'd be doing the same thing.

Shepard tells him the date and time - Citadel-side - of her first entrance to Milliways and that of her second entrance, the one she got Bound on. "If you're from after that point, don't tell me or Tali about anything that's happened since. I'd rather not know."

"Hm." He took all of that in thoughtfully, ceasing his pacing for just a bit.

"I came in not long after that. The reward ceremony was yet to come." Garrus was wise enough not to think about how screwy time was, here. It would only hurt. After more pacing and such, he straightened and turned back to her.

"I think I'm going to stay as well. If not until you leave, then at least until you get better, commander."

"It's getting to be a regular party in here," Shepard says, before realizing that Garrus may not understand what she means. "I wonder if the Landlord is collecting us.

"How much did Tali tell you about this place?"

"She mentioned that we're at the end of the universe, which is frightening. But also that everyone, from every universe and every planet, as well as from every stretch of time, can be here. In a gist." He added the last bit, because, well, Tali hadn't put it like that. That was just his own inference.

"Although it did seem to be predominantly human, particularly when I was in the bar."

"Yeah. A lot of them are from Earth, too. From what I can tell." Shepard herself belongs to the first generation of non-Earthborn human children, so that makes her feel a little out of place.

"This place is pretty extensive. There's the grounds, this infirmary, a library somewhere, a garage downstairs, the rooms and the security office."

"It's insane and breaks everything that the galaxy has researched." He said, the pacing now replaced by looking around at all the other patients. Garrus didn't really understand it in the least, but ever since he met up with Shepard, strange stuff like this had been happening.

"But you and Tali are here. So either you're a beautifully crafted part of my imagination, or it's real."

"Garrus, there's a rule of thumb that if you think you're going crazy, you probably aren't," Shepard advises. "It's real. It's weird, but it's real."

"Tuh." He offered quite unhelpfully. A bar at the end of the universe. Imagine what everyone back in normal-ville would have thought of that idea.

"Relax, Garrus. Enjoy the break while you have it. God knows we all need one."

"Agreed, but this isn't what I had in mind." The turian said, leaning to the side.

"...Still, I am quite curious about the whole place. Aside from being injured in your dreams, it seems relatively peaceful."

"Yeah. It's surprising, considering that they've got folks from so many different times and places in here." They both have a good sense of perspective on that, seeing as the melting pot of the galactic civilization they come from has more than a few belligerent lumps in it. "If something does happen, they have their own security and holding cells. For the most part they don't seem to need them all that much."

"So I can assume that there's no fighting, or any sort of sordid affairs in the bar?" He asked. Life on the citadel bore many a sight, and some of them he could have gone without seeing.

"Heh. No, not for long, anyway. People can apparently duel on the grounds or have alone time in the room upstairs, but other than that, violence, nudity and sex are against the rules. So is carrying a major grudge, or at least acting on it."

"I see." He wasn't Tali's biggest fan, but there was no possibility of them coming to a violent conflict. After a while, the turian shrugged, still tactfully leaving the commander's dream unexplored. There would be other moments.

"I guess my next course of action is to see if I can leave this place or not..."

"If you can still see the Door, you're in the clear," Shepard says. Although if Garrus is planning to stay with her anyway, the presence or absence of the Door won't really matter one way or the other.

"Mmhm. I'm staying here, either way, however." He straightened for a bit, before finally starting to motion like he was about to leave.

"Commander. If there's anything you need, don't hesitate to call on me or Tali. We're here for you."

"I know you are," she says quietly. "But it's good to hear you say so, all the same."

"I'll be in the bar." He tilted his head in the turian equivalent of a smile, before curtly turning and walking toward the exit.

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