Shepard was used to having the weight of the world on her shoulders. Hell, she was even used to recon missions and death at this point. However, this one was different. Earth fell, Palavan was falling, Tuchunka, and Rannoch. She was seeing some of the greatest species of the galaxy just hold it together. She was sure the Asari, the oldest council race would be faring better. But this was war.
After doing her rounds, she found herself in her loft checking her messages idly. "According to metabolic scan's on your armor you are more stressed out than the Skyllian Blitz, like more than Elysium, and the last time I talked to Anderson, he told me to watch you." She kept replaying the words over and over in her head. Joker was right, she was stressed out more than usual. She just hoped she could keep it together long enough to end this war once and for all.
Reluctantly she picked up the data pad that she received before Thessia. Truthfully it was the source of most of the stress she had. Shepard walked to the elevator and kept looking over the data pad. It stopped on the crew deck and she stepped out. The mess was empty, for once. She looked at Liara's door, and decided she needed a little longer before she could confront her closest friend. She instinctively started to walk toward the main battery, and she hit that sentence. That one sentence that changed everything.
She stopped, looked through the window of the med-bay where she and Chakwas had spoke about this earlier. If there was anyone on this ship that knew her the best, it wasn't Garrus, Liara or Tali; it was Chakwas. Their history goes back quite a bit. While she was under house arrest, before the reapers hit and took over Earth, Anderson sat down and had a heart to heart with her. It was then that she found out that Chakwas delivered her into this world.
Shepard walked into the med-bay, and say down for her procedure. A procedure that was still experimental, hell, the procedure didn't exist before now. She would feel better if Mordin were here, or if at least she could tell Garrus.