Nocturni Snippet

I wrote this before my mood went downhill and, I admit, I’m shamelessly hoping some feedback on it may get me back in the mood to finish the chapter.

I guess I’m asking anyone out there who knows Nocturni to let me know what they think. It’s greatly appreciated ❤️

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Garrus watches as Jai becomes a part of the Archangel team effortlessly, their initial suspicion in her and the disguised Nihlus overcome by her cheerfully helpful and inquisitive nature. Even if he couldn’t hear what was said – and Nihlus wasn’t really helping by describing it over the comm in his helmet to Garrus’ visor – Garrus could see the easy way Jai seems to find a purpose once more after her entire life was thrown so out of balance by his sudden appearance the day before.

He knows the fact that his team aren’t strangers to the Gozu district’s clinic where she worked helps to instill confidence that she won’t endanger them or their location, but he didn’t need to know of their familiarity with the clinic to know she’d be loyal. She wants to help people, has that charitable nature Omega hasn’t bled out of her, and Garrus has a feeling that his decision to offer her personal aid and attention to his team is just the kind of relief she needs from the new, strict protection order he and Nihlus have created. He can wait back in the shadows as he is now and feel sure that she will be able to do what she craves as well as be safe, both under his watchful eye as well as his team’s.

Perhaps, in time, he can trust them enough to let her stay without him while he joins Nihlus in hunting down Cydian and her Nocturni.

“They seem to be taking to her quite well,” he hears Nihlus say quietly over the comm and Garrus can’t help but to rumble in agreement.

“It’s better you let her do the talking, then.” Shifting to get a better resting position with his new armor, he leans over the railing of the catwalk he’s chosen, glancing directly below at the passing crowds of the Kima district. “Get her attention and get out of there.”

“Less exposure means less time to get suspicious,” Nihlus says, clearly understanding Garrus’ reasoning and concern. “Good idea. Meet us at Afterlife. I’m taking her through a different route than directly across the bridge like we came in.”

Garrus chuckles, knowing the man’s desire to keep to the normal routine Garrus had explained his team is used to. When not anticipating staying at the base, Garrus comes in one way, passes on his orders, and often leaves another way. It’s better to throw off any possible tails that way and his team just seemed to have accepted his admitted paranoia. It’d only stand out to them if Nihlus broke that unusual security measure with- of all things – a stranger at his side.