[Was. That is, after all, the key qualifier. Shepard takes another drink, partly in a stall for time, and partly in a fruitless grasp for inspiration. Thane had been a shadow at her shoulder, the unseen ally in a fight, the only sniper she ever really trusted, outside of Garrus. She had quietly resented James' combat presence for the entire first month of the Reaper War, if only because he hadn't been that.]
(I never met a Drell, before him. They always seemed too weird, like... lizard-people. Rubber mask sci-fi bullshit, you know? I was kind of an asshole about it, to be honest. Then, I met him on a job, and he put down a whole room of mercs before I could even draw. It was... like watching a dance. You ever meet somebody and you just know, they're gonna be trouble? Like, you'll help 'em hide from the cops and bury the bodies trouble?)
[Not that Thane would ever be so gauche as to get caught by anything so mundane as local law enforcement. But the point still stands. Shepard had experienced one brief moment of the deadly action of the Galaxy's deadliest assassin and had rightly thought I'm so screwed.]
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[Was. That is, after all, the key qualifier. Shepard takes another drink, partly in a stall for time, and partly in a fruitless grasp for inspiration. Thane had been a shadow at her shoulder, the unseen ally in a fight, the only sniper she ever really trusted, outside of Garrus. She had quietly resented James' combat presence for the entire first month of the Reaper War, if only because he hadn't been that.]
( I never met a Drell, before him. They always seemed too weird, like... lizard-people. Rubber mask sci-fi bullshit, you know? I was kind of an asshole about it, to be honest. Then, I met him on a job, and he put down a whole room of mercs before I could even draw. It was... like watching a dance. You ever meet somebody and you just know, they're gonna be trouble? Like, you'll help 'em hide from the cops and bury the bodies trouble? )
[Not that Thane would ever be so gauche as to get caught by anything so mundane as local law enforcement. But the point still stands. Shepard had experienced one brief moment of the deadly action of the Galaxy's deadliest assassin and had rightly thought I'm so screwed.]
( ...He was so fucking beautiful. )