"It does raise some.. interesting questions. But I'm a soldier, not a scientist. I'm not so good at theory. I don't know how it is that I woke up here before you ever got to Menae and yet you say I was with you all along.."

He began to pace a bit, arms folded, crossing down and back in the little room in only a few strides either way.

"I thought of all the things I'd miss if what I'd read was true. I was angry that something beyond my control forced me out of the fight. 'I should be there', I kept telling myself. 'When Shepard makes that final push, when we drive the Reapers back for good, it should have been me watching her back. Like old times. Like it's always been.' That's what I was thinking. I wondered what everyone was thinking back home. Probably that I'd died somewhere.." It all came out in a rush, just like that other time. Once again he felt an overwhelming need for something to just go right and now things were beyond complicated. The universe seemed to have gone on just fine without him. Or with.. whoever it was that she'd known all that time.