Chapter 101: In Dread Despoina, Dead Leviathan Waits Dreaming

=== Summary ===
Shepard and Garrus, though exhausted, hold a tiebreaker up in the captains’ cabin.
The next stop on the victory tour is Sur’Kesh, and it is only for formalities and to avoid slighting the salarians. Shepard sends her thoughts to Garrus without Entangling, and Major Kirrahe is up to something.
The day after their ceremony on Sur’Kesh, Shepard and Garrus return to the Helos Medical Facility to try to figure out what is happening to them.
They start by observing Shepard “listening” to Garrus’ subvocals, before moving on to communication via Entanglement, and finally to sharing memories.The doctors watch in horror as Shepard relives her death above Alchera and her neural pathways go dark before coming back. After giving the two of them a break, the doctors return and ask if everything is alright. Shepard accidentally speaks ‘through’ Garrus, taking control of him. When she realizes what is going on, she lets go of him- leaving the two of them extremely disoriented, and everyone (especially Garrus) greatly disturbed.
The next day, Garrus bows out of further experiments for the time being and keeps his distance from Shepard. For the second day of testing, the doctors enlist Liara’s help to see if Shepard can communicate with people other than Garrus. The meld fails and Shepard (or something through her) speaks using her voice and mind to the doctors and attacks them. She tells them “You are here because of me!” before Liara uses stasis on Shepard and Dr. Larin takes the opportunity to tranquilize her.
=== Title Meaning ===
2181 Despoina is the location of the Leviathan in Mass Effect 3. The title likely points towards Shepard's Leviathan/Harbinger-like behavior at the end of the chapter. 
At the time of publishing, istie appears to have felt that the title was rather on the nose. 
=== Easter Eggs ===
==== Discord Highlights ====
Every eye emoji under the sun, early releases of scenes (-eyebrow waggle-), and turian expletives.