Tacticus sat in the back of shuttle close to his squadmates simply staring into the floor expressionless and motionless. Sura had decided it best to give the kid some time to process his best friends death by himself. Besides she had some burns from bullet grazes on her arms that she needed to tend to. Solares however decided to get over to the window and look out towards the station. Thus being the first among the Turians to see the carnage. "By the spirits they blew it up! Did they blow up the cruiser!? It's game over man, game over-.."

"Quiet down Solares." Sura said making her way up behind him and putting her hand on his shoulder to calm him down. She looked intently out the window for a few moments at the wreckage. "I don't see the Intrepid anywhere in that mess. She may have gotten out, which means we arn't quite dead yet. I would also suspect that a fleet will be organized within a few days when the Hierarchy realizes there is no response from their troops. Week maybe before they send a recon frigate through the relay, well, assuming that execution video hasn't already hit their desks." Sura grabbed a hand hold in the ceiling and looked back at her troops, most of whom were applying medi-gel to themselves for minor burns and atleast two bullet holes. "We should probably head planet side and see if we can get a communication uplink strong enough to broadcast to the system, see if we can't get in contact with our boys." She turned to head to the cockpit to tell the pilot but the ship shifted and started moving towards the world before she could even tell them. Hopefully the Humans had the same idea at this point but knowing them they might just go to ground as soon as they hit dirt. Sura decided to shelve that idea until they actually got down to the planet though, no need to start an argument in a tube hovering through the vacuum of space.

Sura decided to make her way down the line of her cabalists making sure they were all good to go once they got off the shuttle. Luckily it worked out that Tacticus was at the end of the group. He was just staring at the ground not moving at all like he was in shock. She forgot sometimes that not everyone in the squad had seen combat before. The dead blank stare was not something that she was unfamiliar with. It was a common response to seeing your friend's head get blown off. Still leaning on the ceiling but standing in front of Tacticus she spoke "Hey Cactus, you dead or are you alive?" Tacticus didn't move at all so she grabbed his shoulder and shook him a bit. "Hey, you don't get to check out soldier."

Tacticus jumped a little bit as he looked towards the hand that had grabbed his shoulder. His eyes took a moment to focus on Sura before he was able to stammer out "Yes...good sir, I'm good, sir." Tacticus realized that he had zoned out thinking about Numso for a minute there. He blinked his eyes to get the dried blood off his eye lids quickly before moving his still wet hand up to his eyes to try and clean them out. He ended up just mostly covering his face in more krogan blood and just elected to stop trying as he was only making it worse. "Do we... are we heading back to the fleet sir?" Sura simply shook her head no. "The planet then right? Maybe the uh...locals are still willing to help?"

Sura removed her hand from his arm shoulder and responded to him. "We'll work on that once we get planetside, don't worry about it. Get your head clear, Numso embodied the spirit he's fine now. But we still have to get out this, be ready to move once we hit land." Sura hit Tacticus on the shoulder with the bottom of her fist lightly and turned around to be greeted by the Human that had almost killed them all earlier. Sura accepted the chocolate from him and was hesitant for a moment as to what to say. "Thanks Human." She quickly divided it up evenly among her troopers and even gave some to their diplomat. She figured that this may be the last sweets any of them saw for awhile may as well enjoy them.

Tacticus was given the chocolate and to take his mind off the death he had just witnessed he poured all his concentration into opening the candy carefully and deliberately. He even made sure to bother breaking it along the lines. He passed it into his mouth past his mandibles and worked with his razor sharp break down the candy. It would keep his mind off it for the time being but Sura was right, he was alive, atleast for the next few minutes. He could grieve later, there was still a job to do. He sat upright on the bench and hit Tuvea in the side of her arm with the back of his hand. "How long do you think this stuff has been sitting in here?" Cactus tried to say with a more light hearted tone.

Tuvea quickly responded "I don't think I wanna know." This got a half chuckle out of both of them.