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Moiety

Chapter Thirty-Nine: Atrophy

When Omega is retaken, and the streets are littered with Cerberus bodies – when the raucous shouts of her name are playing over all the channels – when her grip on her shotgun has finally loosened, Aria stands silently before the ashes of Nyreen.

A charred streak of pavement that might have been turian or might have been adjuctant.

She'll never really know what it is she says 'goodbye' to, but she says it all the same.

Aria learned many years ago – before she ever took a bright-eyed turian lover – that love spent too long in one place turns to atrophy.