Chapter 110: In Absentia

=== Summary ===
Aelianus wakes up in the evening after his crash, and Garrus rushes to his side. A little while later, both Shepard and Garrus confide to Admiral Hackett that they believe the assassination attempt was related to them, rather than any policy decisions the Primarch might have made. Shepard suspects Minos, but Garrus confides privately to Hackett that the Marquis might be involved. Hackett has his own theory, given the skill required to make the shot described.
Early the next morning Solana Vakarian arrives, having come as quickly as she could and still dirty from the classified mission she’d been forced to wrap up quickly. Solana tells Garrus how she broke her leg during the Reaper war, and that their father refused to abandon her.
Garrus asks Nyrius who is going to be interim Primarch while his father recovers, and she explains that his father had named Duarch Damien Arterius- Saren’s son born out of bonding. Garrus is extremely surprised by this news, and Nyrius explains that Aelianus had been politically grooming Damien for years, given Garrus’ wayward ways.
Official word of Aelianus’s accident and Damien being named interim Primarch is announced shortly afterward. That evening, when Aelianus is more lucid he asks his children though subvocals to stay with him while they can- even if he hurts. He explains that while he lay there after the crash, he was filled with regret at the idea of leaving them so soon after losing their mother, and that he had wasted too much time trying to shape them into what was expected instead of enjoying his children. Both Garrus and Solana tell him that they understand, forgive, and love him. Aelianus tells them that he loves them also- and he’ll never again take that for granted.
=== Title Meaning ===
=== Easter Eggs ===
==== Discord Highlights ====
Putting up curtains just for the aesthetic, the real meaning of slow burn, and Vi getting into trouble with Din and Mor.