The battle has been won, no one knows what happened, no one has any understanding of how they'd won, yet it was over.
Cheers go up over the planet's surface as their enemies fall with nothing to signal their impending death but the winking out of bloody lights as the skies go silent; the terrible note that ruled their days and nights finally cut off.
Even the shuffling horrors that are a mixture of their united forces cease all movement.
For all the celebration that rises over planet and across the galaxy, the one who'd made it possible is or seems to be momentarily forgotten.
Seems is inaccurate - as that person hasn't been and will not be forgotten.
A lone solitary figure makes its way over the battlefield to the wreckage that was once a space port, with quiet determination it sought out a salvageable ship, it's mission is to make sure that a paragon will not be lost.
One hour, sixty minutes is all the time that is allowed.
In that hour; a lone ship, with wavering emissions lifts off en route to the wreckage that hovers over the planet.
Citadel's schematics are remotely accessed, the fastest route calculated, and four hours later the ship docks on the broken starfish that was once the seat of galactic power.
The keepers are busy at their repairs: corpses are dropped into protein vats, rubble moved or broken down.
Every visible keeper station bathes the wreckage in a ruddy glow as the Citadel's original inhabitants go about setting the station to rights.
The area sought is not on any map of the Citadel, yet it is found with ease and there in the rubble she is lies.
Some would say she is dead.
However he is not some.
He believes alive has survived-research has shown the human body; the human spirit to be very resilient and she defeated death once before and will again.
It is nothing to remove the heavy debris that covers her frame.
Unearthed, he sees armor that has been destroyed in some areas leaving her skin bare but the ceramic plates are totally melted in others, seared into her skin.
Blood seeps from her side, her face is nearly unrecognizable.
Her body is broken, her chest still and despite it all-the scan reveals life.