You had more confidence than I did, then, or I wouldn't have bothered to say goodbye. I take it you got my message?
[ Miranda had held out hope that she'd be one of the few, maybe due to her genetic tampering, maybe just from pure dumb luck. But she was never one for self-delusion and she knew the odds as well as Shepard did. Maybe better; she still remembered the near-frantic moment that lead to her compiling them.
Shepard wasn't wrong about her death: it had been quiet, miserable, undignified in the end. Though it had been undone, the thoughts she'd faced down alone in the freezing darkness won't ever really leave her now.
She can't find it in herself to summon another smile. ]
I have a little more empathy for you. We're probably not meant to remember our own deaths.
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[ Miranda had held out hope that she'd be one of the few, maybe due to her genetic tampering, maybe just from pure dumb luck. But she was never one for self-delusion and she knew the odds as well as Shepard did. Maybe better; she still remembered the near-frantic moment that lead to her compiling them.
Shepard wasn't wrong about her death: it had been quiet, miserable, undignified in the end. Though it had been undone, the thoughts she'd faced down alone in the freezing darkness won't ever really leave her now.
She can't find it in herself to summon another smile. ]
I have a little more empathy for you. We're probably not meant to remember our own deaths.