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Chapter 8

Every precious second opportunity

(Don't let me go!)

… Karin and Aethyta are still sleeping when Liara enters the Shepard's room. Luckily, the communicator is accidentally left on. So, Liara's voice can wake them up, soon ...

L: ... you know ... isn't it? And, when I heard you were coming, I was very happy! Oh, I just couldn't help it! I missed you so much! However, since you were back to your suicide mission, the panic slowly was beginning to take the upper hand over me again ... I felt myself deeply connected to you, it's true, I was every day more, but ... I couldn't let myself go completely, living our relationship up to the end because, I feared that listening my feelings, to be happy with you again, it would have thrown me into an even gloomier suffering if, I had lost you for the second time, and ... you Shepard always seem to attract by danger, playing with fire, like a moth, and sooner or later I was afraid you'd be burned ... again! There was no room in my heart for another torment! I was already so torn, I couldn't bear to add new pain to the pain. My life expectancy was at least than 900 years, and ... you were the only person I could love in whole Galaxy. I was absolutely certain just only one thing: I couldn't resist, dragging me for almost a millennium, torn to pieces by that inconsolable misery! However, when you entered that door, my heart seemed completely crazy, and it jumped in my throat so hard that I thought it would come out from my chest ...

L: Shepard, it's so good to see you!

S: It's good to see you too, Liara! How are you doing?

You wished to know if I had discovered something useful, so we remained for a long time talking about Broker's data, of Reapers, and of the limitless potential of what I had not yet examined. You too, had got disturbing news: you were coming back from a dangerous mission on board Collector's ship, during which, you had done some very bewildering discoveries about them, and you were anxious to tell me ...

S: oh Liara, you never believe what I found!

You had found out a truth nothing short of baffling: the Prothean were not extinct, on the contrary, their DNA had been modified by the Reapers, who turned them into Collectors, then enslaved them or indoctrinated or who knows what else! Forcing them to work for Reapers! Collectors were seeking correspondences between their DNA and Human ones, for absolutely mysterious reasons! Also, the ship who destroyed the Normandy it was chasing you last two years! Even the Shadow Broker knew it, so I had learned some things by examining his data. Edi also discovered the Collectors' DNA, is composed by four filaments helix, just like Prothean ones, which had been modified, changing three chromosomes, getting out something abominable, a new species that no longer has anything to do with ancient Prothean ...

S: I'll tell Edi to transfer you all our data, so you can compare them with yours, continuing your research.

L: Thanks Shepard, you know, it is staggering! ... I spent fifty years studying Protheans, and nothing made me think they had an even worse fate of annihilation. By the Goddess! It's something really horrible!

Then, you asked me how's Feron, and then something which shocked me, to say the least ...

S: So, you and Feron? ...

How could you believe I was interested in Feron? And worse, how could you doubt, I was so madly in love with you?! I felt dreadfully guilty because, I realized how much my behavior, it was doing suffer you. You needed a clear answer about my feelings, which gave my evasive attitude, they didn't seem obvious at all. While on the other hand, it was evident that yours, they were never changed ... For you maybe, it had been easier! I had spent two years mourning you, while you were back, only a few months ago ... It couldn't be the same! In any case, I had to be honest with you, but above all ... I wanted to be able to find the words, opening you my heart, trying to confess you, once and for all, the intensity of the feelings I felt for you ...

L: … are just friends! I believe you made it clear that, I was as you humans say … taken!

Your voice became warm and seductive while you were coming closer, forcing my legs not stop shaking never again ...

S: You know, I didn't come down here just to talk about data ...

How could you not be afraid that it happened again?! Your safety, and the essential need to start from where we left off ... I felt your love, becoming more evident with every breath, and your enjoyable determination not to give up, started slowly to undermine my panic. I wanted to realize if ... what I really wished ... it was to run away!

L: Look, about that kiss ... We'd just finished the fight ... I miss you! ... But it's been two years ... I don't want to put pressure on you!

S: I've got fond memories of the last time, you put pressure on me!

L: Eh ... so do I!

That night meant a lot for you too! You had not forgotten it, and perhaps you too, when you felt bad, you found comfort in memory of those unforgettable moments. So, when you invited me boarding the Normandy for a drink, I felt myself explode with joy, and suddenly I didn't even notice the fear!

… On your ship I met some old friends, like Joker and Dr. Chakwas, Garrus and Tali, it was very nice to see them again ... When I came into your cabin, however, my legs began to tremble again, and my heart bouncing me in the chest because ... you were preparing some drinks, like the last time, before the attack that killed you! However, you smiled, and you seemed very peaceful, and happy to see me. Your voice could be so soft, your eyes such deep that, for a moment I forgot every fear ...

S: did you enjoy the tour?

L: Yes, it's a beautiful ship ... I brought you something ... It took some digging, but I recovered your tags!

S: I thought I'd never seen these again!

L: You can't get back everything you lose, but sometimes you get lucky!

S: Oh, yeah! That was the plan ...

I had need to know more about you ... How did you feel, what was in your heart, as you were facing your mission and, above all, what prospects for the future you had. You've always allowed me looking at you inside, deep in your heart, in your soul, limitless. Finally, for me it was becoming increasingly clear, as even you needed to find a bit of trust, to feel me still by your side, to know that I was right there, just for you!

S: between you and me? ... I have no idea how we're going to do this! I'm doing everything I can, but ...

L: You've done more and most! There wouldn't be a man, woman or child left on Horizon if not for you!

S: I saved some of them. Not enough. And the Collectors will keep hitting Colonies, until I stop them!

L: So, you'll stop them!

S: And here I thought, it'd be difficult!

The enemy was so powerful, you don't ever underestimate an enemy! Fortunately, you also had your determination, your courage, your skill in battle, your boundless fortitude ... Maybe, you only needed to feel, I was still next to you. To know you were not alone that, nothing had changed between us, and my unwavering faith in you, it was not changed, I was as the usual right there by your side ...

L: You'll get the job done, you always do! I just don't know what comes next! So tell me what you want. If this all ends tomorrow, what happens to us?!

S: I don't know ... marriage, old age and a lot of little blue children?

I can't describe you, how much I wished hear you to tell me this, and perhaps, you grasped. Probably, you only meant reassuring me about our future, but at that moment I thought you weren't serious ... forgive me! I was wrong! Now I know! But at the moment, I couldn't hold back the tears ...

L: you just say these things ... Goddess! You were dead!

S: I got better!

I fought hard against those tears didn't want to surrender, and when I turned to you, I didn't expect, you were so close. Feeling the touch of your body, the sincere caress of your eyes, the emphasis of your breathing ... it had slowly fall down all my blocks one after another, but I was still afraid!

L: this time ... but you're going to leave again! When your team is ready, you'll leap through the Omega4 Relay. I spent two years mourning you! So, if we're going to try this, I need to know you're always coming back!

I didn't mean being compelled to give up on you, never again Shepard, in the strongest terms! Because, I felt inextricably tangled in your heart, clinging to your soul, mixed in every breath, every beat melted inside ... Nothing making sense in my life, without you! Unfortunately, I had learned it on my own skin, but now you were there ... so incredibly close ... alive and ... ah, wonderful! I needed a promise from you, and I needed of believing it couldn't be broken ... never again!

S: I don't know ... that's a pretty big promise to make ...

L: Oh, is it?!

You kept my hands, crossing your fingers with mine, chained me to you. At your charm, so irresistible, up to your lips so sweet, into your desire so intense, poignant, seductive, which was reflected in mine, like in a mirror ... I felt every shudder, every gasp, every thrill, take your body then reaching mine, quivering with emotion crowds, only for you. Your voice was so sensual, soft, sweet, and it lovingly touched me, like a caress ...

S: I'd have to have something special to come back to ...

L: I'm … open to suggestions ...

S: hmm ... how about this ...?

Your lips quivered on my neck, up to climb the cheek and mingling with mine, who couldn't resist the thrill while you wrapped me tenderly in your arms. I was letting go, but suddenly, the panic yet taken once a fool of me!

L: Oh Shepard! Your arguments are so convincing, but ... I'm sorry! I ... I can't stop the panic seizing me! I'd like ... oh, I wish sinking into your arms, believe me! Let myself go because ... I love you! ... I love you, Emily! ... But I get so scared!

You stopped you suddenly, and I thought you hated me, you didn't want to hear any more about me, about my obstinacy nevermore! Instead, you gathered my face in your hands, with such tenderness that, I felt enveloped by a reassuring warmth. Your eyes were so deep, they inspect directly my soul, crossing through my heart, lovingly taking care of all those wounds still bleeding. When you began to speak, your voice was swollen with emotion, the blue of your eyes pierced by silent tears, shining like diamonds, in the balance between your eyelashes, then rolling down, relentless flooding your cheeks ...

S: Ehi, my little baby girl! I perfectly know how much you suffered, darling one! I know it, deep inside my heart. If I think just for one moment that you were in my place, to float in the vacuum, and I was watching you die. I have the real measure of your pain absolutely clear in my mind! Oh Liara, you don't need feel guilty, please believe me, simply because it wasn't your fault! I understand your fear too because, I also have suffered the same fear, my love! As I was floating in the void, desperately trying to see your escape pod, of knowing that you were rescued, I just wanted to reach you. When I realized that my suit was damaged, I could feel the oxygen blew away quickly. My every thought, each labored breathing, were directed to you ... Inside my eyes, there was only your face, and while my throat was burning, my heart burst of pain to the idea, I was going to lose you forever, leaving you alone! But, how hard I struggled, every breath was becoming increasingly difficult, then impossible! I could still on my lips feel the taste of that kiss, remember! While the warmth of your body, gently wrapped in that embrace, it was all I had left of you! ... All around me everything was growing dark, and my heart plodded on at every desperate attempt to resist! In vain because, I felt suffocated by an enemy, I couldn't put down! My last memory is your beautiful face, full of darkness, which gradually took possession of me! ... Then nothing! Of those two years when Cerberus me back, it only darkness remains! ... The first thing appearing in my mind, when I woke up was, your beautiful face again, but when I opened my eyes you were not there! The Base where they kept me was under attack, and a woman's voice, calling me persistently ... Since that time on, I didn't spend a single moment of my life without think of you, longing to see you again, coming back to the warmth of that embrace, the taste of that kiss ... Oh, I love you, Liara! I love you, crazily! I'm N7 soldier, it's true, and also Council's Spectre one. Saving the world is my job, and I could never back me down, but ... my life since the day I met you, it's only you! You are all that really matters to me! If I'm here, if I could go back, it's only thanks to you! You crossed the galaxy looking for me, you never given up, adventuring back on Omega, alone. You faced unspeakable dangers, ripping my body to the Broker, to Collectors, at great suffering price. I ... I can't believe, you've faced all of this ... you've brought me back, only ... just making me hurt! If you don't love me, that's fine, I will respect your feelings! I will go out forever, but … if yours is only fear ... if you really love me, then please Liara, my love ... don't let me go!

Your torment was intense as much as mine, it was so palpable, it looked like a living thing ... I had listened too long my personal pain, not completely realizing what you experienced even, how much my attitude hurting you! Yet, even though you had suffered a lot, you weren't afraid of risking to suffer again ... letting you go, loving me, to be happy with me, for all the time it was again granted us! Only now, I suddenly realized when you were right! As always you knew the fate better than I read it, appreciating any gift that, life could still offer to us ... every precious second opportunity! Those tears, you couldn't hold back, they burned inside my heart, with greater force than any fear. Now at last, I was absolutely sure what I really wanted, it wasn't to flee! My lips desperately cured every tear, dry it out from your cheeks, whispering you all my regret. While you were doing the same, slipping gently your lips on my face, with the same distress it filled ...

L: Oh, forgive me ... forgive me ... forgive me!

S: Liara ... I love you ... I love you ... I love you! And ... there's nothing in Universe, I have to forgive you!

I plunged into your arms like a waterfall, which finally reaches its stream in a rushing foam swirling ... We had waited and suffered so long for this moment! Our lips were trembling with desire, by looking for them then taking together, intensely, passionately, desperately, insatiably ... while I seemed to go crazy with emotion!

L: Oh Shepard, it was ... horrible ... horrible!

S: Oh, my love! ... I'm sorry ... forgive me ... oh, forgive me!

L: Woe betide you if you try that again! ... Do you hear me? ... You don't try that, never again!

You whispered to me every thing, desperately clinging to my breathing, flooding my mouth with kisses, caresses, and poignant consolation. Confusing by your regrets into mine, flaring up with passion ...

S: Oh Liara, I love you, I love you, I love you, and I am here only for you! ... Oh, I swear ... never again!

L: Oh Emily ... please tell me that it's not a dream ... it's really happening!

S: Oh yeah ... sure it is! A beautiful dream, wonderful that, finally becomes reality! Tomorrow morning, when you wake up, you'll find me still here, holding you in my arms, taking care of you, with my all soul ... with all Love I can feel!

L: Oh Emy, I love you! ... I don't wanna live without you!

Our thirst was unquenchable. So, desire and passion exploded like wildfire ... Our bodies were burning like flames, which only mingling they increased their burn. The emphasis of those hugs, the intensity of those kisses, the thrill of those caresses, threw oxygen to the fire in an explosion of sensations, ever so intensely tried. Even sweetness and tenderness were turned into flames, which burned unquenchable ... There was no other way, to turn off the passion with passion, the desire with desire ... the fire with fire ... Ecstasy caught us like a hurricane, our bodies bound in an unbreakable blue cloak, while the darkest night enveloped my eyes, who embraced eternity once again! Every feeling, each our sensation, every shiver and emotion, each sigh, they mingled intertwining to each other, in an endless pleasure ... Thoughts and feelings came together and penetrate reciprocally. Our hearts fused and tangled, one another, they ran at the same rate, touching deeply our souls, ever so inseparably shared. Exchanging and joining deeper and deeper, and then again, until reaching our vital energies and mix them, combining them together as an incredible new one! We were merged into one being, ever so deeply bound. Where emotion and satisfaction were so strong than they seemed to us eternal and infinite ... flowing endlessly!

… Liara is motionless as usual, she is holding the Shepard's hand, wrapping her in the Biotic field, but this time, the mind meld seems to never end. As if not enough, Shepard's beats are very high almost three minutes. It had never happened before, for so long ... Dr. Chakwas starts to get really worried because, in Shepard's situation, there's possibility that her heart not bear the effort, having a cardiac arrest. She must decide right away ... Stopping the mind meld, it seems her, the most rapid and safe solution. Karin jumps up unlocking her office's door, but she feels to grab her arm …

A: Wait! Stop! You can't stop the merger now, you harm them both!

K: it's too dangerous! Shepard couldn't survive if she had a heart attack in this condition, I must act now, for the good of both!

A: Karin wait, please, I think I know what it is! ... Nothing will happen ... you'll see!

K: Thyta, you're saying?! Let me go!

The lock is already open, Karin is about to go out when Shepard beats normalize suddenly. The merger is completed and after a few minutes, Liara starts talking again, still in the throes of a strong emotion ...

L: Oh ... oh, Goddess! ... Then, fire slowly left the place to the warmth of that embrace, safe and tender, within which to find our peace and serenity. We remained silent long, to enjoy that incredible feeling of well-being, of contentment, completeness ... We were sharing every little emotion, every tiny sensation, without needing for any word. Until they reached a peaceful place, in the most intimate of our hearts, where we jealously guarded them, for Eternity ... I felt so safe in your arms, so happy! It seems that nothing in universe could ever hurt us! You remember, my Love?! ... I never felt so alive and happy in my entire life! Then, the sweetness of your voice pleasantly distracted me from my thoughts ...

S: are you sleeping?

L: No, I was thinking of you!

S: And … you're happy?

L: Oh yeah! I am so much that, I lost my gravity! I seem to float in the air ... Oh please, if this is a dream, don't you dare wake me up ... never again!

S: Hmm, Fear not! I have no intention whatsoever! Remember our first night together?

L: Oh, sure! I remember every single moment, every shudder, every sigh! I re-lived that night hundreds times in my mind over the last two years ... It was the only way I could ease a little my pain!

S: you know, I've lived it many, many times, too. I always thought all emotions, the feelings, the huge involvement we sensed, they were so intense and deep as to be unique and unrepeatable ... I thought I could never feel another time in a lifetime, nothing more wonderful ... until tonight! That unforgettable and beautiful night, it's not even comparable to what I felt tonight for you ... together with you!. I ... I don't really know how you do! ... how can you make me feel this way?!

L: it sounds curious because, I was going to ask you same question!

You tight me in your embrace stronger, caressing my back while you were kissing me on the tip of my nose, smiling as you said ...

S: Hey, I'm serious ... you shouldn't kidding with me!

L: Emily, I'll never kidding about … Us! To be honest, I've never been more serious in my entire life. What we felt, the indescribable union there has been between us ... Oh, believe me! None in whole Galaxy, it would be able to recreate the same! It's something unique and incredible, even by Asari standards ... Neither do I, I could re-live same emotions and sensations, sensing the same feelings with someone else who is not you! It's us, you know? It's only ... Us! We've just experienced what Asari called "Perfect Fusion"! It's such unlikely thing, a lore which dates back to ancient times of our culture. An extremely rare event, I thought only belonged to the myths, of antiquity legends! Each Asari, during her very long life, can fall in love many times, binding with many partners, she also has children with different partners. Each relationship of these, it can represent a lot to her, but ... The legend says, for every Asari, it exists in the Galaxy a single and unique ideal partner, her "perfect extension"! It's missing somewhere, and since there's a multitude of species, even more difficult to meet. It would be like, finding a tiny speck of cosmic dust, dispersed around universe immensity! Only very rarely it happened from beginning of all things to date that, one of us, coming across in her own "soul mate!" Hey, don't laugh! Neither do you, you should kidding with me! Look, it isn't a colorful way, defining your partner, like you humans do! It means that partners really are fully complementary to each other, they go through and complete one another, one is the perfect extension of the other, and their union survive for eternity. This merger, transcends body and mind, it goes further, including their Souls, which are mixed in such depth, involving even their Vital Energies to penetrate into them, stirring all the essence of each, so indissolubly into another one, so that two become completely one in their whole being. The Perfect Fusion, has great potential: in some particularly stress or pain dangerous circumstances, it allows partners to activate a Mental Merger, even if they are in very distant locations from each other, not being able to establish a physical contact. Their Consciousness, Soul and Life Energy, blending anyway. So, they both will be able to experience the other's feelings even at a distance, like some kind of telepathy ...

S: Hmm, sounds great!

L: However, there is also another side of the coin ... The Perfect Fusion involves total loyalty, it's a union not only for life but ... for eternity. Change your partner, or fall in love with someone else it won't be possible … forever! Even when your partner dies because, when that happens, its memories, its soul and all its vital energy will flow in other, becoming an integral part of it. Then, when even other will die, there will be a single vital energy, which will disperse the Universe, collecting both of them in a single essence, eternally. Precisely for this reason the real Perfect Fusion does not establish the first time that occurs, but the next one. The two partners in fact, should consciously accept every aspect of relationship, having the option to reject it or wait for if they don't feel themselves ready because, once established this second Perfect Fusion everything will be permanent, and it can no longer be broken up! Shepard Oh, it sounds incredible, I know! But it's clear now because, I couldn't let you go!

S: Yeah! From the first moment I saw you, suspending into energy field back on Therum, remember? I understood, how really special creature you are. I felt an incomprehensible attraction, very intense, and a deep bond, which inevitably attracted me toward you ... It was odd, and I couldn't explain it, but from the beginning, I wished you joined into my life!

L: Oh my Star, it's true for me too. I swear! Unfortunately, we will again stay away! At least, you'll have the chance to reflect, deciding if you want me in your life, for eternity ...

S: I don't need to reflect, Liara! You're already in my life for eternity. I decided what I want the day I met you ... because, there are you tangled in my soul, clinging on the bottom of my heart, connected with each breath, dissolved in each beat, my sweetest Darling one, and you always will ... no matter what happens! So ... come over here because, I have no intention to wait a second longer. Unless ... you have to think about ...

While you tickled me, you drawn me deep inside your arms, making me quickly roll on bed, to find yourself lying on top of me, tenderly stroking my face …

S: I've never told you, how beautiful are you?

L: Well, actually no, you didn't …

S: You're so gorgeous! In my life I've never seen anything more wonderful! You're fantastic outside, but inside, I still can't say ... It will first need to invent new words able to describe you! So ... if by chance, I've to wait ... you'd better say it immediately!

L: Oh Shepard, thank you! You too are absolutely gorgeous! And fantastic, and wonderful, and incredible, and ... whatever superlative words, you can find in Humans' and Asari's dictionary fused together!

You bent down your face between the pillow and my cheek, slight touching my neck and my shoulder with kisses, just grinned. I could feel your heart speed up, while you laid your lips on my own, saying ...

S: OK, OK, it may be enough for now, thank you! Flatterer! And how do you say, "gorgeous" in your language?

L: Oh, well, it says ... Emily!

S: Oh, my little heart! … I love you too! But I warn you, I'm also tireless. So, you are left … two or three seconds at the latest to bail you out!

L: Oh ... Emy! When you're … dead, I've mourned you for two long years and endless ... every day longing, every second, it wasn't true! Hoping, I see you come back to me! Now, I don't know for what extraordinary miracle, you came back for real, and ... after what have been between us this night ... I could never live without you! I am yours, Emily Jane Shepard, Commander! Irretrievably, inextricably, hopelessly yours ... from here to eternity!

S: Hey, my little baby girl! Then, soon … give me the sweetest kiss you can find!

… We were embraced by hours, but the excitement was poignant. I touched your lips, kissing them tenderly, mixing them delicately and kindly with mine, leaving them slowly, and finding again. I couldn't help me but smothering them with love, enveloping your breath, again and again, by luring to me, to melt them on my mouth, intimately, sweetly ... never ending. Every sensation was impossible to describe, it seemed I was sinking limitless inside that kiss. My heart was so full of feelings for you, and you reciprocate them with such intensity in every your gesture and touch, every your glance. I felt the love was expanding like an explosion that finally sweeping away all my pain, every torment which annihilated my heart, carried off at last, even the slightest fear. I finally felt myself free to give in to my feelings with you, with my whole being! So long we stayed away, yet our love grew every moment more since the day back on Therum. Finally, in that incredible night, time seemed to stand still, it was lingering in benevolent complicity, on our bodies, wrapped in passion. We stood suspended in perfect balance, like wings of same butterfly, which hovered slight, along the top of a magic moment. Eternally poised, floating tireless inside that peak, which extending just before the flight. Where, we mingled every emotion, we confused ourselves, we united ourselves. Where, desire and pleasure were blended in my sighs, which inevitably ravished yours, who whispering only my name, tenderly dissolved and mixed into your name! Nothing existed! There were only two of us, and the boundless heartstrings, we felt one for the other. Everything else was gone! Nothing else mattered, only you and me, and the second Perfect Fusion, which was sealing in unending ecstasy, our Love for Eternity!

… Karin checks her watch. Two mental mergers in one day, crazy beats, and the second time it also seems longer than first! For almost three minutes the cardiac detector is locked to 160 beats p/M. Karin can't help but going back and forth, across the room, like a caged animal. Karin is very worried about Shepard, and she would take action. However, she is afraid to worse the situation, and she finds no peace! Aethyta conversely seems very quiet, she is confident everything will be fine, her trust slowly seems convincing Karin too. Finally, after three minutes of mad alarm everything come back to normal, without harm, just as Aethyta has in view.

The Merger Mental is ended, but Liara still does not speak. Her eyes are closed. She feels really exhausted ... The memories she has just shared with Shepard have been so vivid, such real and intense than her heart has not yet ceased hammering in her chest like a drum ... All the love, the gratification, and the whirl of feelings she has just tasted, they seem still suspended all around the room, enveloping Liara like a cloak of emotion. She hopes fervently in her heart, Emily also was able to feel every sensation so deeply, and she finally will open her eyes. Liara wish fall into Shepard's gaze, hearing again the sweetness of Shepard's voice caressing her, can heat herself again into its light and into warmth of her blue eyes. Tenderly she takes Shepard's hand, putting its back on to her own cheek. Liara describing the contours with her lips, lightly. Finally, she finds the courage to open her eyes, and immediately she is looking for Shepard's face into bed ...

… Shepard is still, between her bed clothes, her eyes are closed, her expression is peaceful, as if asleep ... While Liara speaks again, with her usual gentleness, her eyes fill with tears, and she can no longer hide all her disappointment ...

L: Oh Emy! It was the best night of my whole life! Live it again it was beautiful, incredible, so real as my heart beats so fast that, if I don't calm myself down, it will end up burst! I'm sure you have felt the same, too but ... Oh, excuse me! Now I can just cry! You know, I really thought, you'd woken up after reliving this ... I ... I don't know what else to do Shepard! ... If even this can't bring you back ... then what?! What will?! Oh no, please, I'm sorry! ... sorry Shepard ... I'm very tired! It's not your fault, don't worry ... of course it isn't! You probably need more time, I know! ... Rest you now! Get yourself all time you need ... I didn't want to put pressure on you! I see you tomorrow, and we will continue again ... and again ... and again ... I'll always be here for you … for eternity, remember? I love you, Shepard ... infinitely! Sleep well!

To be Continued …