Mass Effect belongs to Bioware – I only play the game to enjoy the story.
Sandstorm by Darude
Brian's eyes widened as he turned to stare at his sister. "Revan's alive?"
Shepard looked at her brother. She has gotten word just before Akuze that Revan had disappeared. No one knew what happened to her or where she had gone. During their night at Rorthang, Carth had told her that Revan left without telling him. She just left. After a few years, no one heard anything and assumed she was dead.
"That's impossible…" Canderous shifted against the wall.
"I heard things…" She looked at the gray haired man. "I don't think they knew, but I did."
"Where? Who has her?" He asked.
"Revan?" Thane murmured causing the Shepard siblings to look at him. "Revan Kaast?"
"Kaast?" Alma murmured looking at Brian.
The White Lotus Leader frowned and looked at his sister. "Her maiden name before she married Carth. We haven't heard from her in years, we thought she was dead."
"Then how does Thane know her?" Chakwas asked drawing everyone attention to the drell.
"We have crossed paths before." Thane blinked before his eidetic memory started. "Her hand rested against the gun, her fierce blue eyes looked like lightning. A brass locket hung between her breasts. Words flowed from her luscious lips, a message for a sister in all but blood."
Shepard stared at her drell companion. It couldn't be possible. Her life couldn't be that complicated. The last time Shepard saw Revan was when she was leaving the White Lotus. Vaguely, she could feel her body beginning tense up as a billion and one scenarios crossed her mind. Why would Revan be somewhere an assassin would be? Was she the target? A large hand wrapped around her arm, she glanced to see Kaidan holding her. She didn't even remember standing.
"The words," Shepard looked at Thane as came back to himself. "What were the words that woman spoke? What did she tell you?"
"Que Sera, Sera." The drell answered.
"What does it mean?" Garrus asked looking at Shepard, who looked crestfallen.
"Whatever will be, will be…" Kasumi answered.
"Shepard…" Kaidan put a hand on her cheek. "Why is it important?"
"It is what I told her before I went back to the Alliance..." She turned her head toward him. "That was my goodbye to her."
"Revan was trying to change her mind," Alma supplied. "Dru had told Brian and me to not interfere but she never had a chance to ask Revan to stay out of it. She was trying to convince Requiem to stay home."
Brian snorted. "Didn't work. Que Sera, Sera…those were your last words to Carth and Revan before you stepped onto the transport. You didn't even wait a full day after Drusilla was in the ground."
Shepard's fingers went to the bridge of her nose as she felt a headache beginning to form. They were so not going to have it out here. "We are not having this discussion on the Normandy."
"I think we should, we've already aired out enough of our laundry…" Brian glared at her.
"Wolf," Canderous cut in. "This dives into Rebellion's past too." The older man's tone was dangerous. The Vanguard's eyes swung from Shepard to him. Brian knew that the man would become volatile if he pushed it. He silently cursed the predicament in his head.
Alma frowned as she tried to calm everyone down by intervening. "Brian I understand you are use to keeping secrets from everyone, but I think we can trust her crew. Same goes to you, Canderous."
"This decision lands on the ex-Soldier," The man leaning against the wall said. "I'm just reminding Wolf that he's not the only one with secrets."
"I know that! And I just don't trust former Cerberus or Alliance personnel!" Brian growled trying to justify his reason for being difficult.
"Bri," Shepard murmured softly. "Non più segreti." (No more secrets)
The man sighed, running a hand over his head and nodded. "Va bene." (Okay)
"Then its settle," Alma looked at everyone who didn't know the secrets. "Once on Earth, we will be able to gather everyone to complete the tale of our pasts."
"Sounds like a bad opera story." Shepard sighed.
"You know Shepard…it sounds like fighting the Collectors was easier, too bad we killed them all." Garrus's mandibles flared as he looked at the woman. She chuckled as she tried to get back into her bed by herself.
Kaidan grabbed her by her hips and lifted her onto the bed causing her to squeak. He regarded her as Shepard gazed at him with wide eyes. Shepardsquirmed in his hands, unsettled by his manhandling her. "You still need to be checked over by Chakwas and you need a shower."
"She's not the only one," Kasumi murmured looking Brian.
"Quite right," Chakwas said as she looked at Alma. "I will need you to assist me. You have more experience with their standard vitals that I do."
Alma smiled at the older woman before looking at Brian. "Kasumi, can you make sure that Brian takes a shower? Callen will be able to give you some new clothes for him. Ordo, tell Carth to delay going through the relay for a few hours until I give the go ahead."
"Aye, Aye mia spia." (my spy) Brian walked closer to Alma. "I assume Requiem will be taking up most of your time."
"Get a room, man-whore!" Shepard hissed when she heard that. Garrus blinked before laughing at the argument.
"Oh, I plan to." Brian grinned.
"Don't even think about using my cabin." She narrowed her eyes at her brother as he started to lean down to kiss Alma.
The man stood up straight with a pout. "Now that just ruined all the fun." He shrugged and left the room heading for the men's showers.
"Are they always like this?" Garrus asked looking at Alma.
"Pretty much," She replied with a shrug as she moved over to Chakwas to get her data pad ready.
"Good," Her lavender eyes turned to Canderous. "You," Shepard jabbed a finger in his direction, "not a word to Carth, you hear me? This is something I need to tell him myself."
"Don't take too long," The gruff man regardedShepard, who hissed as Canderous then turned and left the infirmary.
"You know you sound like a cat when you do that?" Kaidan smirked as he raised an eyebrow. He watched as Shepard blinked rapidly before a bit of red tinted her cheeks.
"Well," Kasumi said a small grin on her face. "I better find your brother some clothes then." She too disappeared out the door.
Alma looked at Thane and Kaidan. "Sorry boys, but I'm going to have to kick you out too."
"What why?" Kaidan didn't look too keen on leaving.
Chakwas looked at the former Lieutenant. "We are going to have her exercise her biotic abilities. And according to Alma's records, she has a higher power level than Brian. If something should go wrong, she could harm you both."
Thane looked like he was about to say something, but stopped when Alma turned to him.
"Despite being able to touch Brian's power Thane, you are still not ready for Requiem's."
Shepard's voice took on a whiny quality. "Brian opened to Thane?"
The spy-slash-scientist turned back to her patient. "He brushed Samara, but sent her into a small coma. When he opened to Thane, he was able to weather through it."
"Can some one explain to me, why is that important?" Kaidan narrowed his eyes. Shepard tightened her grip on his hand as she spoke.
"We are more vulnerable to emotional bursts than normal biotics. We need more control than you do. If it slips, we can kill someone by accident." She looked up into his eyes. "Brian's biotics are fueled by anger. To allow Thane to brush against the core means he allowed himself to fall into his anger, even for a moment, he lost control. If we allow ourselves to fall into our 'cores' we could become worse then some of the insane L2s…"
"It was like the rage of a god, a constant torrent of anger." Thane interjected. "He told me that your power…your power fluctuates."
"What do you mean fluctuates?" Garrus turned to Shepard.
The silver haired woman was silent, trying to gather her thoughts. A hand rose shakily as she brushed a few strands of hair behind her ear. "I was weak before…the weakest of us three. But…" She paused before taking a deep breath. "I don't have the control Brian has…or what my sister had. I am more susceptible to losing control than anyone. Where Brian is a torrent, mine has been described as one of storms."
"The tri-fecta of storms…" Alma answered. "Her lack of control is the reason why Requiem did not use her biotics until now."
"What changed?" Chakwas asked.
"Cerberus," Both White Lotus women answered. Alma looked at Shepard and nodded letting her take over. "Cerberus's project to bring me back to life has left my body too foreign. When I woke up in the Lazarus station, the first thing I did was reign in my biotics. But…I'm not strong enough anymore..."
Chakwas put a hand to her chin with a frown. "What will happen if you don't get the control your abilities?"
"I don't know what will happen to me…" Shepard trailed off as she looked down.
"But it had happened to Brian…once." Alma said as she stared at Kaidan. "In a haze of anger, he destroyed the station that did experiments on them….after they got a dying Drusilla to the Vercelli. He ripped it apart until it burned."
"A burning station that collided into the small colony," The Staff Commander turned to Shepard. "That was your brother's doing?"
"He lost control after he saw Drusilla." Shepard pulled herself further onto the bed and pulled her knees to her chest. "They cut up her insides…used her. Things that were suppose to happen to me. He…he finally snapped. He told me to take Dru and get back to the ship. And….all I saw while I waited was fire…everything was burning."
Garrus's mandibles fluttered. "Thousands had died in that accident."
"I know," She put her chin on her knees. "Believe me I know…"
Alma walked up to Shepard and put a hand on her head. She spoke softly to the weary woman in Italian. The silver haired woman shifted, curling further into herself. Sighing, the spy pulled her hand away. Before she could say anything, a question was spoken.
"You said….you said Brian's powers were fueled by anger…what are yours fueled by?" Kaidan asked.
Silence echoed loudly through the room. Alma closed her eyes; she was not going to answer this one for Requiem. She needed to tell the men closest to her heart the truth about her power.
"Commander?" Chakwas stepped up to the end of the bed looking at the woman.
"Before or after Drusilla died?" Shepard asked in return, her eyes still not turning to Kaidan.
"Both," The human man looked into her eyes.
"Before, it was a constant. My power was based on my aggression, it is one of the reasons my choices back then weren't always good. I was still the weakest of us." She closed her eyes in remembrance.
"Now?" It was Thane who prompted her this time.
Shepard opened her eyes and looked down at her feet. Her fingers tightened around her arms. "Now…I'm not really sure, but a large part of it is pain."
"Pain?" Garrus seemed alarmed by this.
Shepard shook her head. "My body is too foreign, I can't get close enough to examine it without feeling like I will lose the little bit of control I have."
"Don't try," Alma said looking sharply at Kaidan who was looking at the woman with a curious yet narrow look. "We'll examine that when we are on familiar ground."
"Yeah," Shepard drawled her voice bitter. "Don't want to get spaced again."
"Now…Thane, Commander Alenko if you would…" Chakwas escorted both men out of the infirmary as Alma closed the shutters. Once out of the room, Garrus raised an eyebrow.
"Why am I allowed to stay? I could have been easily moved…"
"One, you are not a biotic so the testing I am going to be doing won't affect you like it would them. Two, Requiem had requested that you stay." Alma explained.
Garrus looked Shepard, jumping a bit when he noticed her looking straight at him. He crossed his arms and leaned back against his pillows. "If you are sure Shepard," He continued to look at her, noticing her eyes softening a bit. "Do you really not trust Kaidan that much?"
"I'm having a hard time trusting him, again," She replied as she let her hands drop to play with the sheets. "It's difficult to talk to him after Horizon…and he saw Carth and me kissing. Not only that, but you've been there for me Garrus, more than he has."
Before the turian could reply, Alma moved to Shepard's bedside with Chakwas. "You'll have time to talk later. Requiem, Chakwas is going to run through your physical, then I will run through your biotics. Is that alright?"
"You're the experts," Shepard murmured as she unfolded herself on the bed. She patiently went through the normal physical with Chakwas. Blood pressure, heart beat, pulse and respiratory rate were checked.
The CMO frowned as she pulled back from Shepard after she was done. "Everything is elevated, even your core temperature. I can only theorize that using your biotics while the neural collar was on did this. But I can't be sure." Chakwas looked over Shepard's wounds as she spoke. "Your wounds aren't healed, but it doesn't look like you have sustained anything fatal. And the scan shows that despite the brutality you have no internal bleeding."
"A grace…" Alma murmured.
"Thanks Doc," Shepard looked at her fellow Italian woman, before sliding off the bed and standing where she had room. Chakwas moved away and stood beside Garrus's bed as Alma moved forward, a data pad in her hand.
"You ready Requiem?" She looked at the woman standing before her. Shepard was bloody and looked worst for wear, but her eyes held a bit of strength.
"Let's get this over with Shaw," Shepard replied.
The spy nodded and looked down at the data pad for the list of exercises. "Form a ball of dark energy and hold it for thirty seconds…"
Kasumi slipped into the men's shower when one of the staff members left. She glanced around, noticing that Brian was the only one left in the room. Putting his clothes down, Kasumi turned on her cloak and stepped closer to the showering man. His omni tool sat on his towel which was on the floor near him on the right side of the room. It was playing a song that was sung by a woman's voice. The thief momentarily found herself swayed by the lyrics and the emotion behind it.
Focusing her eyes again, she let them drift over the musculature of his naked body. His body was outlined in scars and tattoos. Her eyes traced up his right leg, to the tribal tattoo on his thigh. Rising up, she saw the tips of a tattoo on his lower stomach crawling over his hips. She continued up and saw a silver and black fleur-de-lis on his upper arm and a tribal tattoo on his shoulder blades and a tattoo of the woman's head on his neck.
She was so immersed in studying his body Kasumi didn't notice Brian moving toward her despite the cloak being active. She gave surprised noise when she was pulled under the lukewarm water and pushed up against the wall, deactivating her cloak.
"You know the cloak might make you invisible, but it doesn't hide that delicious Japanese scent of yours." His nose was pressed against her neck under her chin. Kasumi shivered as he inhaled deeply, letting it out slowly through his mouth. "Bamboo and plum blossoms, what a subtle sweet scent for a thief."
Kasumi's eyebrows furrowed. "How did you…"
"We explained the Alliance did experiments on us," Brian let his hold on Kasumi loosen as he kept her wrists by her head. "Our senses are heightened, one in particular for each of us. Mine was scent, Drusilla had heightened eyesight after she took Requiem's place, and Requiem's…."
"Shep's was?" The thief urged as the man inhaled again.
Brian sighed and pulled away. He released one of her wrists to allow his hand to cup her cheek. His thumb swiped down the purple strip on her lip as he stepped forward, trapping her with his body. "You're smart…" Brian whispered as he leaned his face closer to her hooded one. His other hand let go of her wrist. He leaned his forearm on the tiled wall as he stared at her. "Figure it out."
When the man wouldn't move, Kasumi took the initiative to reach out and touch the wolf tattoo over his heart. She raised her left hand to the right side of his chest were there was a black scorpion tattoo. Letting her hand slowly trace his muscle down his chest, she sought out the tribal tattoo over his lower stomach curling over his hips. Her thoughts drifted to what she was suppose to figure out. Looking back up into his eyes, Kasumi saw darken lavender staring back at her. She let out a breath as she felt the lust in those eyes surge through her. Immediately she knew that her attraction to Jacob wouldn't be anything like the attraction she felt for this man. The only other person that made her chest feel this way was Kenji.
"Can you guess?" His voice was husky and it sent shivers down her spine. His hand drifted down her neck toward her chest. Kasumi gasped as a small tingle of biotic energy emitted from his finger tips. "Or do you need more hints…"
"Touch…" The thief rasped. She felt Brian shift and felt his groin press against her. "It's…it's why she plays with her hands a lot."
"Bene," Brian smirked before leaning in and kissing her neck again. "You are an observant one."
"You're sister is right," Kasumi's hands went to his shoulders as she arched a bit into the kiss. Pulling away, she licked her lips. "You really are a man-whore…"
The Shepard sibling pulled back as laughter echoed in the room. He looked into her hooded eyes and shook his head. "I just like to appreciate those who spike my interests."
"I see," Kasumi smiled at the man before pushing him away. "Get dressed wolf-boy, I think you had enough fun in the shower."
"Oh, we could have more…" Brian suggested wiggling his eyebrows at her.
"Dress now, fun later." She turned on her cloak disappearing from his sight as he pouted, turning so his back was toward the wall following her movements. "Don't worry Wolf, you have plenty of women to pester on this ship."
Brian groaned as he felt fingers drift over his naked groin. "Tease…" The pressure increased, backing him up against the wall.
"You'll find out I'm more than just a tease Grey Wolf." Kasumi replied before pulling her hand back. With her cloak intact, she began to walk away. "By the way, you might want to take a cold shower before you leave."
Her laughter echoed through the room as she left leaving Brian cursing to himself.
Kaidan was pacing in the mess. Thane had returned back to life support, claiming he was tired, leaving the Staff Commander by himself waiting for Shepard's tests to be completed. He frowned as he looked down at his wrists. He had bandaged them while waiting. They ached terribly due to the constant tugging he did on them while trying to escape. His frown deepened as he thought about what happened.
Shepard's death, her reappearance, the connection to White Lotus, and her past with the Alliance…it was all a bit much. Kaidan rubbed his hands over his face. All the cloak and dagger things were not his forte. This made his thoughts turn to Chavis. He felt his shoulders tighten in anger. He thought they were…she was just using him to get to Shepard. She manipulated him so he would think badly of the woman, but how could Kaidan after he saw the truth of what happened? The only thing he couldn't get his mind wrapped around was the fact that she took her sister's identity.
The swish of the infirmary doors opening brought Kaidan's thoughts about that to a stop. He watched as Shepard walked out with a somber expression. Alma came out after her with a frown. She spoke in Italian with Shepard before gently pushing the woman toward the elevator. Shepard grunted before marching to the elevator and going up to her cabin. Kaidan was about to move to follow when Brian came out of the men's shower, dressed with a towel around his neck.
"Alma?" He questioned as he glanced at Kaidan. "Did Requiem go upstairs?"
Alma immediately walked to him, handing him her data pad. Kaidan observed as Brian's face went from concern to fierce expression. "Are you sure?"
"Almost positive…" The scientist replied before glancing at Kaidan. She spoke something in Italian looking back at Brian. That didn't make the Staff Commander feel better.
Brian handed data pad back to her. "See to it that Carth understands that I want the fastest route to Ambrosere with the least amount of relays."
Alma nodded as she took her data pad back. She looked at Kaidan again and spoke to Brian in Italian again. The man seemed to draw back and frown at him. Her voice got firmer as she smacked him in the head with the data pad before moving toward the elevator. "I mean it Brian!" She said as she left.
Running his hand over his head, Brian growled under his breath. Raising his hand, he motioned for Kaidan to follow him as he walked toward the forward batteries. This was not a talk he would enjoy having with the man who spurned his sister.
Kaidan cautiously followed after Brian. He saw how small the space in the room was as he stepped into it allowing the door to swish closed behind him. Kaidan knew that being near this man was something that he didn't want to do, especially after what he had done with Chavis. He wanted to move away from the man that had begun to pace back and forth on the left side of the room, but kept himself stationary. Kaidan crossed his arms as he looked at the taller man.
"You didn't pull me in here to make me watch you pace did you?" He asked.
The White Lotus leader looked up at Kaidan as he stopped pacing. "No, I didn't. But you don't like me and you sure as fuck know I don't like you." He sighed. "Alma wants me personally to clue you in to what she found about Requiem. And if Alma wants it, it happens."
"You give her a lot of leeway…"
Brian growled. "Alma has done a lot for my family as our medic. But even this is something she is worried about!"
Kaidan didn't like the defeated yet angry tone Brian had. "Something's wrong isn't there?"
"Requiem's body….is stressed to the point of breaking down." Brian reached up and grabbed the ends of the towel hanging around his neck. "Biotic, body, and brain….they are all showing high levels of strain. During the biotic tests Alma was running, she couldn't even keep her barrier up with experiencing severe build up of pressure in her head."
"Could this be from using her abilities with the neural device on her?" Kaidan's arms dropped as his concern began to show through.
"We don't know yet," The other man replied. "The only other time this has happened was when…." Brian trailed off thinking about the time he had Alma test him like that. "I had Alma run a test with me. The device wasn't at full power and it was in a controlled environment, but when I fell asleep afterwards I was asleep for almost a day with a bad headache. Requiem's body and powers are foreign to her now and I doubt Varchis left the device at ten percent."
"She was bleeding from her eyes and nose…" Kaidan said thinking back to when he got to her.
"A side-effect from the pressure on her mind."
"So what do we do to stop this?"
"She needs to slow down." Brian said with an exasperated tone. "Req isn't one to let something go though."
Kaidan raised an eyebrow. "What are you suggesting?"
"Take her mind off the incoming threat, the Reapers. If I know my sister, as soon as we get to Earth she will want to see the Prothean artifact. I heard what happened on Eden Prime and Virmire from Garrus. I don't need my sister's mind being scrambled like that, not again."
"Why aren't you asking Onasi to do it?" The former Lieutenant asked. "She's apparently with him now."
"What?" Brian's eyebrows furrowed.
"They slept together on…."
The tattooed man ran both his hands over his head before muttering to himself in Italian and pacing. "Damn, I didn't think she'd latch onto him like that. I'll kill them both…" He stopped as he saw Kaidan's confused look. "What they're both stupid they shouldn't have done that…" Shaking his head, he continued. "Our emotions run high, higher than any other biotic I've come in contact with, it's an effect from our powers." Brian paused as he turned and leaned back on the wall looking at Kaidan. "Her emotions on seeing you with the puttana probably had something to do with it." He paused briefly. "Carth has always made Req feel safe. He sees her as her own person. Not the White Lotus Leader's sister, not as Fox, not as Commander Shepard. She's always just been Requiem to him." He put a hand to his chin. "Plus the assassination attempt they told me about must have pushed her. With her emotions running like that and feeling like you abandoned her…there was bound to be an incident."
"Such as him sleeping with her?" Kaidan was getting angry. This couldn't possibly be his fault.
"Well I'm sure if you didn't have your play thing she would have gone to you instead." Brian said off-handedly. He raised his hand and pointed at Kaidan. "What you don't understand is how much she's keeping to herself. Requiem tends to think she's a burden on everyone…anything that bothers her is separated from her 'normal' attitude."
"I know this."
"Do you?" It was Brian's turn to raise an eyebrow. "Before the Normandy crashed, how many times did she help you or the other members of the crew with their problems? How many times has she gone to you for her problems or even said anything about them?" Kaidan didn't say anything, he scoffed. "That's what I thought." The tattooed man put his arm down. "Look, Carth can't fix what is broken in Requiem. He's acting as a buffer though. Requiem knows his past and knows that he's been through the same. But a buffer can only work for so long…."
"Look!" Kaidan was angry at all the accusations being thrown at him. It's time he stood up for himself. "I can't change what I did on Horizon. Afterwards it felt like a mistake and I wrote her an email saying so! What was I supposed to think? She was with Cerberus!"
"You were supposed to listen to her!" Brian hissed but didn't get very far as Kaidan continued.
"And then after she comes back from the Omerga-4 relay, she stays away for months!" The Alliance Staff Commander was stepping forward toward the White Lotus Leader as he spoke. "I figured she moved on and that it was time for me to do the same. I admit, I should have been a little more thorough in checking the woman out, but that's my fault." Kaidan glared at Brian as he clenched his fist. "Lastly I find out she's with the White Lotus. I'm sorry if that's a bit much for me considering everything that's happened in between, I'm only human."
"Only human…" Brian snorted.
"Yeah, human. If you forgot we feel emotions other than anger. Like betrayal, confusion, frustration."
"Frustration is a part of anger." The other man pointed out.
Kaidan's glare hardened. "What about you? You are using your sister just like you say the Alliance did."
"Hold the fuck on," The White Lotus man raised his hand to halt whatever Kaidan was going to continue with. "I never coerced my sister anything! I never force her to do things that are below her skills and I NEVER," He was growling at this point. "…would withhold information from her! So maybe you should get your facts straight before you start jumping to conclusions Alliance-boy."
"If people would start telling me the facts," Kaidan replied angrily. "I wouldn't have to jump to conclusions."
"You hacked our files; you know our past with the Alliance." Brian smirked as he saw Kaidan's surprised look. "Don't give me that, you don't think I had set up security around those files after I left? The Alliance doesn't know of course, but I can track anyone who looks at the file and why."
"So are you going to kill me for it?"
"I should, those files are below your pay-grade."
"Then do it."
"Don't tempt me Alliance-pet."
"Reduce to name calling now?"
"It gives me warm fuzzy feelings…on the inside."
"So if calling you a raving fucking lunatic that acts like one of humanity's worst monsters, makes me feel better I should do it?" Kaidan tilted his head to the side.
"Wouldn't hurt your tight-ass attitude," Brian grinned.
"You're insane…" The black haired man shook his head.
"Why thank you." Brian said as he reached out and patted Kaidan's shoulder. "You're a fuckin' idiota. Now we're even." Retracting his hand, he smirked. "And if Joker doesn't mind, he can tell EDI to let you up to Shepard's cabin so you can bring her down to the cargo area so we can do this."
Kaidan blinked as he heard Joker speak. But it was more because of the changed in Wolf's attitude, then again that asari at the pool did say he flipped through emotions faster than anyone she knew. "Uh…sure thing er…Brian. EDI you heard the man."
"Giving Alliance Staff Commander Alenko access to the loft." EDI's voice echoed in the room.
"Thanks EDI," Joker said.
"Logging you out Jeff."
Brian pushed Kaidan toward the door. "You bring her to the cargo when you are ready. I have to go warn the local biotics that there might be echoes."
The former Lieutenant blinked as he awkwardly headed toward the elevator. His mind really could not wrap itself around Brian. All the emotions that the White Lotus Leader just ran him through were exhausting. Running his hand through his hair, Kaidan sighed. That man really is insane.
