[Video]

[knightoflight]

[It's a slightly harried looking Wing who appears on the communicator. He doesn't look injured, just...stressed out, his gold optics dim and tarnished-looking.]

H-has anyone else seen Dr. Liara T'Soni?  I mean recently?  I swore I saw her. But...[He looks around, almost on edge, and the camera moves to show that Wing's in a dead-end corridor. He's chased what he thought was her--and was definitely something--down here.] But, well, you can see. 

If she's here, she

[....and then he goes blank for six or seven long seconds, almost like he's been shut off, but then he starts speaking, continuing the sentence as if nothing had happened.]

needs our help.

Comments

Video

[theverymodel]

[Salarian body language isn't necessarily identical to human, but it does appear to be a frown]

Was told Dr. T'Soni long gone.

Video

[knightoflight]

I'd thought so, too. But I saw her. I swear.

Re: Video

[theverymodel]

Fascinating. Previously acquainted?

Video

[knightoflight]

I met her here. I'd thought we were friends. Or at least that she wouldn't run from me.

[Though, now that he thinks of it, 'running' wasn't quite accurate.]

[Video]

[professorwolf]

Wing, are you all right?

[Lyall is concerned, but curious. The ship is where Doctor T'soni's scent trail ended....]

Where on the ship are you?

[Video]

[knightoflight]

I'm fine. [He has no idea there was anything odd about the broadcast.]
I'm worried about Dr T'Soni.

Down by engineering, I think.

[Video]

[professorwolf]

Try to backtrack a little to the nearest main junction, so that I can find you. I can come meet you and see if I can pick up her scent. If she was there, I should be able to smell it.

[And he might be able to smell if something is off with the giant robot, as well.]

[Text]

[frostedoverland]

Whoa, you okay there, big guy?

[video]

[knightoflight]

Yes. I'm fine. A little rattled, perhaps.

[Why does everyone keep asking him if he's all right?]

Dr T'Soni was a kind person. I can't understand why she'd run from me. [Because that's totally what you're asking about, right?]

[Text]

[frostedoverland]

[Because you totally shut off for a few seconds there.]

Is she someone from your world?

[Encrypted Video]

[standsentinel]

[Kaidan's response comes in clipped and quietly forceful tones, the military air to his bearing coming into sharp focus and revealing someone who's learned to give commands.]

What's your specific location? I need a detailed description of what happened and when.

[There's something cagey in his expression, evidence of unquiet ghosts beneath the controlled concern.]

[Encrypted Video]

[knightoflight]

[The tone of voice is sharp, but he remembers that Kaidan had known Dr T'Soni.]

I saw her first by the first bay of pods. I called out to her, because, well, I was surprised to see her. And she fled--or moved down the corridor. I followed her--I thought--down here by engineering.

[Encrypted Video]

[standsentinel]

You say 'or' moved down the corridor, like you're not sure if she was fleeing or not. Was she responding to you, or giving any other sign of seeing you?

[If you can get past the sharp focus from the normally calm major, it sounds like someone may be testing a theory rather than hearing something wholly new.]

[video]

[galacticheroine]

[Shepard's expression is set neutrally, but her eyes are sharply focused on the camera]

Kaidan said Liara had disappeared. You saw her? Did she look like something was wrong?

[video]

[knightoflight]

Commander Shepard. [He looks relieved.] I saw her, by one of the pod bays. I thought maybe she'd woken up again, but when I called to her she just wasn't there.

[video]

[galacticheroine]

[She's silently thoughtful for a moment]

You don't think you've got a-uh, glitch in your programming or anything, do you? [she wishes Legion or EDI were here so bad right now so she could filter all the what am technology questions through them]

[gtfostalker]

You look as though you have seen a ghost.

[Among other things. That pause is. Very odd.]

Are you all right? You, ah. Stopped, for a moment there.

[knightoflight]

I begin to think I may have. [Since the werewolf has been unable to find her.]

....I did?

[gtfostalker]

Ghosts. Now that is the one thing I did not expect from a place like this. [Though he really doesn't sound very surprised, all told.]

You did. It was like you... skipped a beat.

[Voice]

[evervarying]

Did you stumble across any alien artifacts around the same time you think you spotted her?

[Voice]

[knightoflight]

No, nothing.

Have you seen her, too?

[Voice]

[evervarying]

Not on this planet.

[It may or may not actually be true - "synthetic" still codes as "geth" to her, and it'll take more than a couple months to get over that distrust.]

Where do you think you saw her?

[video]

[tiptoeing]

[Bruce shakes his head.] I haven't seen her recently, I'm sorry. But...I do have some good news for you, and it might fix that glitch you just experienced.

[video]

[knightoflight]

....Glitch? [He didn't notice anything.]

[video]

[tiptoeing]

You stopped functioning for a few seconds. Has that ever happened before?