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    Shepard's built a career on the impossible, but there's no way she could come back from the dead again. Kaidan isn't so sure. Is it grief or faith making him so unwilling to let go? He's got a job to do to help rebuild, and he can use that to find her...dead or alive.

    [Paragon sole survivor/spacer Shepard, Destroy ending. I may add more characters later. Grief can make you question yourself in some difficult ways - folks with personal experience, this may get triggering for you, hard to say for sure while I'm writing this. I've been dealing with a lot the past two years. I like using this part of the quarian passphrase to the Flotilla as my title. It's hopeful.]

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    Shepard has always seen the threads that connect people. They're what kept her alive.

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    Heroes' stories do not end with the final page of the tales told about them. After The Tale of the Champion, Elodie Hawke's story continued on just long enough to end in the realm of the Nightmare Demon at Adamant Fortress.

    This is the story of each of her previous companions from her life in Kirkwall learning of her fate.

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    Carrie Shepard has been assigned to the most important posting of her career thus far, but neither she nor her crew could have expected the extent to which all of their lives are about to change.

    [each chapter is delicately crafted around a different song, which will always be linked in-fic, and listening is highly recommended; full playlist also available here]

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    21 Aug 2019

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    "I just wanted to go back to work, but the Systems Alliance wanted a hero. Then the media got involved and they took Sole Survivor of Akuze and ran with it.”

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