meredith_fadewalk: (ConceptArtAlt)
Cold. She was…

Pain bloomed across her body, but Meredith refused to fall back into the sweet, quiet darkness. Pain was real. She was…

... )
itsinmyblood: (Default)
{{occ: This is probably going to start out as Ashley and Fem!SHep, but Kaiden, Male!Shep, and Tali, please feel free to join in whenever. We will update the posting list as needed if that's okay.}}

It had only been a few days since Ashley had awoken in this place. She had stayed close to the ship, too afraid to venture forth. Even if she knew that there were other people in the place as they were, trapped it seemed as she was, the Major had yet to really grasp what happened.

Since walking around the ship had usually helped her work out whatever problem she was facing, Ashley decided that doing so now, in this place couldn't hurt. It was strange how quiet everything was. She was so used to hearing something humming, whether it be the drive core or the quiet murmur of the crew. Never had she ever heard the Normandy like this.

When she reached the docking bay, Ashley decided that walking around outside the ship couldn't really hurt. Granted, there were weird people about, but nothing could be weirder than having to work with a Turian. The thought of Garrus made her smile. She wondered where he was, if he was okay. Really she was concerned about all of her crew, but she had faith that they could take care of themselves.

Ashley didn't notice the body laying face up in the grass until she was practically on top of it. And when she did, the blood drained away from her face.

"Shepard!" Her commander looked like she was dead, the blood a sharp, crimson contrast to the white pallor of her skin. Ashley immediately bent down and checked for a heart beat, sighing when she felt a faint beat beneath her fingertips. "Shepard! Oh come on, Commander, you have to wake up!"
keelah_selai: [Tali, looking at the camera head-on, in cool colors] (Default)
Tali was sure that some day, kicking the bosh'd electronics was not going to work, and she would look silly, standing there thumping on a busted device.

But today was not that day.

The outer doors to the airlock finally popped open, and Tali dropped to the grassy ground just past the exit. She stared at the roiling sky, at the high stone (stone! like in the fairy stories of children!) walls of the castle, at the disturbing lack of solid ground that encompassed the whole of the building.

Then she scribbled off an invitation to the human she had been comparing notes with, and settled down on the end of the Normandy's closest wing to wait.

Baby steps, she told herself. You don't learn how to rebuild a combat drone during your first firefight.
keelah_selai: [Tali, looking at the camera head-on, in cool colors] (Default)
(OOC: Edited slightly to reflect Quarian culture. Click here to listen to the unedited song, sung by the lovely Julia Ecklar!)

[Tali has filled another page in the journal with mechanical diagrams, this time of the Medbay's medi-gel dispenser. A section of the page has been boxed off with softly curling vines and swirls, and contains what appears to be a quarian lullaby. It's written once in the angular script that appears to be Tali's native language, and again in Galactic Common. There is a grumpy sounding note about "losing something in translation" at the very bottom.]

I've tried to be so careful,
I've not spoken of that day.
That the sky’s sweet winds seduced me
And swayed us from our way.

We've walked only midst the star's bright shine
And banished all thought of our father’s times. 
We can't go home, must forever fly
Mid the stars that are blocked by a ship’s confines

Our world at night, like sirens,
Tries to call me from my sleep.
And I long to shove the shutter back
And listen while she speaks.

Can you tell me if our world is well,
And sing me of that which you cannot tell,
And weep for the travelers who left their place,
To be trapped for all time out in lonely space.

But our world, she sings too strongly,
Of the home I might never know.
Though we chose to live our lives out here,
I want so to choose to go.

So I can't see the light of the flames of spaces,
Or I’d wander the night with my tears on my face.
I’m sorry we roamed from our garden walls
To be lost, mute and cold, out in space’s halls.

I wish on the stars I chose not to see,
Praying no more will be lost like we.

(OOC: If anyone is interested in seeing the Quarian script version, have a link!)
keelah_selai: [Tali, looking at the camera head-on, in cool colors] (Default)
Down the stairs to the lower deck. Around the base of the drive core to the maintenance shaft entrance. Up a ladder, and into the duct tunnel. Up a second ladder and turn to the left. Crawl for a sixth of the ship's body and another left turn. Up a short ladder, and out into the room housing the AI Core...

The AI Core was dark and silent, just like the Engineering deck. Tali had never spent much time here - both Legion and EDI frightened Tali a little. She'd been trying to make amends, for Shepard's sake, ever since her argument with Legion, but it was hard work, overcoming years of ingrained prejudice. There was something...off about the room, though. Tali couldn't quite put her finger on what was wrong or different. It must be the lack of noise, she thought, and moved quickly to the electrical panel on the doors.

Just a few moments, and the doors to the Medbay sparked and slid open with a metallic groan.
keelah_selai: [Tali looking up and to the left, in warm colors] (Reminiscing)
Tali'Zorah vas Normandy woke to the intense feeling that something was wrong.

It was rather obvious what was causing some of that - the Engineering deck was dark, only the orange-red emergency lights glittering in the darkness. With a start, Tali realized that the deck was also silent - no beeping consoles, no whirring computer modules, no gurgling pipes...

...no humming drive core.

She was on her feet and in the drive core chamber in moments, staring up in horror at the silent machine. Dead silent - not just sleeping, like they had set the ship down for an emergency landing; or offline, as if they were in the midst of repairs. The drive core made no noise at all, as if someone had cut the eezo which powered it out of the core and ejected it into space.

Tali spent an hour or so trying every way she could remember, and some she invented on the spot, to reboot the core and the Engineering consoles which regulated it, before giving up. It was well and truly dead...which meant the Normandy was either drifting in space on her emergency generators, or was landed somewhere...hopefully safe.

She giggled as an irrational fear crossed her mind, and continued to laugh somewhat hysterically as she began rewiring the door out of Engineering. I hope Shepard didn't assault the Collector base without me...

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