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Summary
Kaidan has a reckoning with the Butcher of Torfan.
Suit alarm. Another blood pressure alert.
Kaidan immediately queries his HUD for an update on Shepard’s vital signs. Pulse 116. Respiration twenty-two breaths per minute. Given the exertion required to walk into Sharjila’s headwinds on a shattered ankle, those numbers aren’t concerning. But Shepard’s systolic pressure has been dropping slow and steady over the last hour, and his body temperature is three tenths lower than last check.
A harsh gale laced with silicate batters their shields, triggering anew the flare, hiss, and inevitable overload alert. It’s happening quicker now, too. Too much sand. Too much grit. It’s a constant tax on a system not designed for this kind of sustained assault.
But that’s the least of their worries.
Series
- Part 2 of Opus - The Multiverse