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Being a Turian, Garrus was already accustomed to any old Turian sayings. Even the new ones didn't surprise him. But humans, they had various sayings that always popped the curious part of his mind. It all had to do with their speech. Usually humans were not that eloquent, even if that was the type of speech they were going for. But the sayings, no matter how brute or to the point it was, had this hidden eloquence to it that Garrus could not put into words.
One such saying he'd dug up while figuring out how to date humans was some human documentary on wildlife. Now Garrus didn't know what a bear was, but by the way the humans were talking about, they were supposedly less smart than humans. But the phrase [i "there is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest of bears and dumbest tourists"] was what he remembered from that.
The reason for the present recall of that specific saying had to with an interesting reason. After being stuck on Earth after the relays were destroyed, Garrus somehow ended up staying. He had military experiance, and the Alliance looking to rebuild their military had hired him as an advisor and occasionally a trainer. Although these past one-and-a-half years had not been easy. The biggest mystery was that of Commander Shepard. Last anyone had seen of her was down on Earth when pushing towards the elevator. After the battle, she'd just disappeared. Only those still alive left from the Normandy understood why losing Shepard ached and tormented him; they were the only ones with any knowledge of the two of them being much closer than friends.
There were still many pieces of various rubble laying around. Most of it was debris that had survived Earth's atmosphere and had strewn itself across the planet. Those parts only began to be scrapped after a few months of the battle's passing, as the humans, understandably, focused on rebuilding their cities and other population centers first with what they had. One of the places Garrus knew there was a giant chunk of debris, supposedly parts from the Crucible superweapon which had annihilated the Reapers. It was during the afternoon while walking, he'd overheard people talking about some drunk idiot walking through the warning signs and light barriers. In attempting to recover the drunkard, the humans had found a second body.
It wasn't until later in the evening when Garrus' thoughts looped back around to the second body. Normally he wouldn't have payed attention to some random body, but throughout the day he'd heard many humans having hushed conversations about this other body. For a seasoned hunter such as Garrus, it didn't take too long for him to find information on where this other body was sent.
The fact that the body had been sent to a hospital and nowhere else cheered up Garrus. It meant whoever had been found was still alive, and he wouldn't need to do the formalities of visiting the relatives of the dead human and solemnly telling them of a death of one of their own. With Turians it was sort of expected to die in battle, humans had similar expectations but they tended to be more emotional when it came to family.
Arriving at the hospital, still in his armor, he calmly walked up to the check-in place. Garrus spotted some eyes on him. Not too easy to blend into a place of humans as a Turian, and even harder with him being a somewhat famous Turian among the humans.
Having Alliance Military identification made the process of inquiry streamlined, so much so that 30 seconds later Garrus, escorted by one the nurses, was walking to the room where the located body was being kept.
Garrus could not hold back the shock upon entering the room. He felt the sharp gasping intake of air, his heart palpated slightly as it sped up. His head did a small shake, eyes blinking like auto-cannons while whispering a Turian expletive. The body laying on the bed was that of Shepard's. But if she was the body laying under that big hunk of debris, then how had she survived the past 1.5 years? Sure she'd [i 'survived'] being spaced, Cerberus having resurrected her, but Garrus doubted someone had resurrected her. Last time it had taken two years, and the body had been found less than 24 hours ago.
Despite the protestations of the nurse, Garrus strolled into the room. He only stopped till reaching the edge of the bed. His head, tilted downwards, rotated slowly from right to left, scanning Shepard up and down. [+blue "Shepard?"]