![]() “Probably so you can tell them I’m crazy. “Any idea why they brought me in?” he asked. Shepard’s smile shaded closer to her real one, and the look in her eyes told him he wasn’t the only one holding back from touching a hand or shoulder. “Where’s that joint shore leave when you need it?” he muttered. This wasn’t how it went in the books he used to read as a kid. His COs always commended him for keeping a level head, but a surge of irritation bordering very close on anger bubbled up in him. “And I could really use a week of being weak right about now.” You know that.” She looked up at him with a wan smile. “When was the last time you slept?” he asked. ![]() “That’s pretty much it.” When Shepard sighed and rubbed at her eyes, he had to call on all his military discipline again to keep from laying a hand on her shoulder. “What was it you said about biotics? You aren’t restricted but you sure don’t go undocumented?” Shepard’s posture straightened as a scowl crossed her face. But the MPs at the airlock get real unfriendly if you try to leave without authorization.” “You haven’t been quarantined, have you?” “Antsy,” he answered, “but hanging in there.”Īny trace of her smile vanished. The brass.” Her eyes opened, and she turned her head to smile back at him. “Who knew?” Kaidan replied with a slight smile. Her head tipped back against the bulkhead as she closed her eyes. They’d docked three days ago, and the brass had kept Shepard sequestered in debriefs ever since. They’d gotten one night of leave after Sovereign-one amazing night of leave-and then they’d been ordered to hightail it back to Arcturus. Dark circles smudged the skin beneath dull eyes that stared at the deck in front of them. He hadn’t seen her in dress uniform since she came aboard the Normandy, and he couldn’t help noting the contrast. “At ease, Lieutenant.”Īs she dropped heavily into the chair next to his, he sat down more slowly, taking advantage of the chance to look her over. She waved one hand in a weary gesture as she stifled a yawn with the other. He jumped to his feet and snapped off a crisp salute. Then he suddenly remembered that he was in fact at HQ wearing his dress blues. ![]() Kaidan was a lot happier with this result. Just like the headache, thinking about her seemed to be enough to bring her to him. Kaidan’s eyes popped open to look up at the woman regarding him with a slight frown. The brass already thought they were all crazy for mentioning the Reapers all Shepard needed was for her staff lieutenant to collapse in the middle of a debrief and be carted off by the med techs. He closed his eyes, willing the pain away. Of course, even thinking the word “migraine” sent a faint throb through his right temple. For once he was grateful his migraines ruled out caffeine if he’d been a coffee drinker, he would have worn a hole in the knee of his uniform pants by now. She’d tested them all, day in and day out-frozen in an awkward half push-up, lying flat-out in cold mud, holding a straight face while she shouted demands and insults from inches away.īut even military discipline had its limits, and sitting in a waiting room at Headquarters, wearing his dress blues, the best he could do was confine his fidgeting to the staccato tap of one thumb against his knee. One of the first things Kaidan had learned in basic was that he didn’t move a muscle unless the drill sergeant gave her say-so. My computer got sick.įor leyri: The request was for Kaidan meeting Shepard's mother from the spacer background (Captain Hannah Shepard) for the first time. Quicksand is sand saturated with water, so it behaves like liquid.Įnvironmental consultant Terry Hume told The Project last month quicksand was relatively common.Last two of this round of requests. incoming tides."īray's story comes after a dog had to be rescued from quicksand on Timaru's Caroline Bay last month. "I don't think it'll happen again I think it's just a combination of a whole lot of things but it's really good to be mindful about things like. She said she'd never come across quicksand in her 20 years going to Milford Beach. "When I was a teenager, I had these postcards called 'worst case scenario' postcards and one of them was about quicksand, and it was on my bedroom wall next to my bed," Bray said. She told AM it all happened very quickly and was "a bit of a shock".īy chance, a postcard Bray had on her wall as a child was how she was able to react so quickly. Bray said her leg became completely swallowed up by the sand but she managed to flop herself onto her stomach, roll sideways and pull herself out.
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