"Brevity is a virtue, dear Geth. You ought to study when it is and is not the proper time to summarize, or even give a single sentence as an outline." He took a deep breath, and felt the muscles in his leg stumps quiver. If not for the fact that his lower limbs were mechanical, his knees would have quaked. "For example, to this new Turian, I might respond: 'Things blew up, people got angry, they calmed down, we were reprimanded, and those two are secret Spectres.'" Another deep, shuddering breath, no doubt sounding quite menacing through Ellis' audio input system. "In summary, would you like to be- make a positive difference in the galaxy?"

His heart pounded. [color=red][b]THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP[/b][/color]

Ellis stared this newcomer up and down. A feeling he'd never known before welled up inside of him, and try as he might to fight it back down, it would not. It warred against every fiber of his being, every belief, but he could not deny it.

[color=red][b]THUMPTHUMP THUMPTHUMP[/b][/color]

This Turian was the most beautiful creature he'd ever seen. For the first time in his life, he felt bashful. Where once was rage, was now skittish fear. Like a frozen stick of butter, he'd gone from blunt-force-weapon to delicious-on-toast in a moment. 

Even her words, [color=92278f]"The fuck did I miss?"[/color] were music to his-

[color=red][b]THUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMP[/b][/color]

[i]no no no no no NONONO![/i]

[i]This avian slut will fry like any other bird-[/i]

[i]That's not an appropriate response.[/i] He shook his head, again, and again, desperate to clear away this fog that clouded his mind, warped his thoughts to-

[i]Her legs... So slender... And fit-[/i] A fist clenched. Teeth gritted behind a ruined face.

[color=red][b]THUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMP[/b][/color]

[i]God damn this. GODDAMMIT! NONO NO![/i] For he knew what this was. He'd heard of it before. And like so many before him, he fought. But like so many before him, he would succumb.

His fingers twitched with the sudden impulse to draw his weapon, to blow his own head apart like he'd done to so many others. And, like a cancer once gone, it crept back again.

[color=red][b]THUMPTHUMP THUMPTHUMP[/b][/color]

[i]She could never feel anything from you but fear. Or pity.[/i]

[color=red][b]THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP[/b][/color]

[i]Shut up, I don't care.[/i]

[i]Look at you. You're horrifying. Don't you remember what the Illusive Man said?[/i]

[color=red][b]THUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMP[/b][/color]

[i]"Taevon, you have done exceptional work here. Never did I, even in my wildest dreams, believe that the Council, or Shepherd, much less, would have allowed any of the Human Reaper project to survive. I would assume the Council would send a team back to search for remains."[/i]
[i]"They did, sir. The Council will find their bodies in fragments, spread amongst the rubble."[/i]
[i]"Well done, Taevon. You're the monster I never wanted to need. Dismissed." [/i]

[i][b]SHUT UP![/b][/i]

"More goddamn Turians." He muttered under his breath, and cursed himself for his cowardice.