Chapter 126: Wine, Women, and Pancakes

=== Summary ===
Kaidan Alenko asks his acting XO, Nimue Wynn out to dinner at the exclusive Sirius restaurant and she happily accepts. The fare is excellent, the wine is delicious, and the dessert- to die for. Kaidan collapses over his cheesecake.
Shepard is stuck in one of the last Council meetings of the session, nursing a constant headache and a tickle in her throat that she and Verity chalks up to allergies to some of the blooming Citadel flora. Her focus wanders, and she misses the third message from Tali, this one marked “urgent”. Tali, unwilling to wait, hacks the door and storms the meeting with news that the reason nothing is growing on Earth is because Sol is dying. 
At the Shepard-Vakarian apartment, Garrus plays with his daughter while he laments being gone from her and Shepard so often and so long. While he bonds with his daughter, Shepard and Tali rush into the home rapidly discussing the monstrous problem of Earth’s dying star. Viatrix crawls to her mother, and then to her father, showing off her brand-new mobility before Dr. Chakwas calls with news that Kaidan is being rushed to Huerta Memorial for suspected poisoning.
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