Chapter 105: The Gift of the Magi

=== Summary ===
Garrus stresses over the final preparations for the Normandy’s relaunch. Shepard discovers that to be a turian masseuse all you need are ceramic-reinforced bones and cybernetically enhanced musculature.
The next day Hackett asks Garrus if Shepard is ready, Garrus answers truthfully that she’s never going to be one hundred percent and they can’t guarantee that something like Rannadril won’t happen again. Hackett asks if he trusts her. Garrus affirms that he does, but he doesn’t know if he trusts whatever is inside of her. Hackett takes it as an affirmative, and mentions that now he doesn’t have to find a different birthday gift for her.
Shepard wakes up on her thirty-fourth birthday and muses over the strange occurrences that have plagued her over the last decade. Viatrix wakes and Shepard moves to feed her, thinking that she was in her bed with her family, loved and safe, and that was pretty good. A few hours later, Hackett officially lifts her section twelve injunction and asks her what she wants to do. Shepard admits she wants to be “home” on the Normandy and Hackett tells her that the ship is hers as long as they want.
That evening in front of the ship’s crew, Admiral Hannah Shepard christens the Normandy SR-3 and Captain Shepard takes a tour of her overhauled home. When she gets down to the shuttle bay, she discovers her squad is waiting to celebrate her birthday with her.
=== Title Meaning ===
The 1905 short story "The Gift of the Magi" is about a young married couple with little money giving up their most precious possessions to give each other a Christmas gift. Though the nature of the gifts mean that they cannot use them, it shows the distance that the two of them went for each other. This in turn is a reference to the biblical "Wise Men" who journeyed to Bethlehem at the fulfillment of a prophecy and gifted the Christ child with gold, myrrh, and frankincense. 
=== Easter Eggs ===
The raneol that Shepard and Garrus discover represents istie's spouse, and was put there by their request.
==== Discord Highlights ====
Upcoming chapter titles being a little too on-the-nose, what happens when istie is vaccine-fogged, and hunting down obscure single lines of dialogue from ME1.