RP: Open

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The first sensation Garrus registered as he woke up was the metal floor scraping his face plates when he tried to move. He groaned, finding the strength to grip the wall and climb to his feet. As the area around him came spinning back into focus, he tried to make sense of why he felt like something was very wrong.

Silence was his first indicator. Heavy, cold silence. No ambient engine hum, no whir from his consoles. The red emergency light was the only light in the room besides the faint glow from his eye piece. They must have crash landed somewhere

Garrus shuffled for the door, still regaining the strength to stand on both feet. By the time he had made his way through the galley to the elevator, he was stable. Even despite the sharp pain in his chest every time he breathed, he moved with reflexive militant precision. Past the elevator, up the stairs, through the powered-down main deck, out of the airlock and--

He stopped in his tracks on the edge of the airlock. The world outside was unlike any planet he had ever witnessed. The way things shifted and swirled was downright unnatural. He reached up and activated his comm, hoping it was still functioning, "Is anyone else seeing this?"

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[itsinmyblood]

That actually stopped her short, the pain suddenly everywhere. Everything that Cerberus had done flashed before her eyes, the experiments, the mutations. Seeing the scars on Shepard's face and arms that the upgrading Medbay couldn't heal. And to think that Garrus thought that she had been used by Cerberus, that Cerberus had actually....

But then she had to remember that this wasn't her Garrus. This wasn't the man that her Shepard had decided to be with. And to this Garrus she had died. So Ashley cleared the emotions of shock and pain off her face and tried to smile. t the same

"This is going to sound really strange. But I'm not the same Ashley you remember."

[keelah_selai]

Tali skidded around the corner at the top of the stairs, and slid to a stop at the other end of the CIC. She could just see the back of Ashley, standing in the hallway to the air lock, as she hurried across the deck. The trail of blue splotches told her more than enough about where Garrus was.

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"You could say that again," Garrus commented to Ashley. It wasn't malicious, or hostile, or cold. He hadn't been any of those things from the start, despite his reservations. It was just the same low voice--gentle even in it's gravelly Turian nature--that he had when he was tired. The expression that had crossed Ashley's face had stripped his reservations away. It was hard for him to believe that anyone could fake that kind of pain, and he was already regretting his choice of words.

Hearing the scrape of sliding footsteps, he looked up and over Ashley's shoulder to see the Quarian swerving into view. He subconsciously straightened his shoulders, settling into better posture, if there was going to be more people around.

"Is anyone going to explain what's going on?"

[itsinmyblood]

Ashley followed his gaze, looking back to where Tali was standing. Good, maybe having someone else there would make things easier to explain.

"We're... not sure." She answered, turning back toward the Turian. Ashley didn't know his mannerisms as well as Shepard did, but at least she didn't feel like holding up her hands in surrender anymore.

"What's the last thing you remember?"

[keelah_selai]

Tali moved forward, the crock of one arm full of medi-gel capsules (the blue kind, for dextro-based life forms). "Garrus, you have dropped who knows how much blood across the lower decks and the CIC - you are going to sit down, and let me patch you up before you so much as think of moving!"

[garrusfadewalk]

[ooc;; I'm SO sorry I didn't reply sooner. This is the first time I've been at home for more than ten minutes that isn't sleeping in a few days.]

"I'm alright, Tali, really..." Garrus tried, but he really didn't protest much. Sitting down on the nearest surface suitable, he let his shoulders relax and rested his elbows on his knees. After pausing and shaking his head, he addressed Ashley's question.

"The last thing I remember..." he mused aloud, trying to remember things clearly. He shut his eyes for a moment as everything came back in flashes. His voice kept it's even keel as he described it. "The last stand on Earth against the Reapers, and Shepard forcing us back onto the Normandy, ordering us to get the hell out of there."

He gestured back the way he'd come, looking up at Ashley. "I was in the main battery, keeping everything stable when we must have hit something. I guess the crash knocked me unconscious, since I just woke up. Where did we land? Where is the rest of the crew?"

[itsinmyblood]

[[OOC: And I'm so sorry I'm just now noticing this!! Please forgive me! ><}}

So it was the same, just as Ashley remembered it. This just wasn't the Garrus from her universe. Nodding, she leaned back against the same table the Turian was sitting on, her arms tightening over her chest.

"I don't know. All I know is that we aren't on a planet I'm familiar with. It's called - Thedas?" Ashley looked to Tali for confirmation continuing when the Quarian nodded.

"And apparently we are in a place called Skyefold. The woman I spoke to earlier said it was located near the Frostback Mountains, but I don't know of any mountain range that looks like this." She gestured to the outside, where the world seemed to be covered in a greenish sort of haze.

"There aren't many of us though. Kaidan's here. And both of our Shepherd's, Tali and I. That's all we've been able to find so far."