Chapter 149: Crossed Wires and Cross-Purposes

=== Summary ===
Mini-Arc: “Secrets’ Fallout” Begins
Sasha and Aeran continue their work on Shepard’s wedding dress, explaining that accommodating her recovery is easy and their pleasure. Shepard gets momentarily distracted by her own dysmorphic feelings before Aeran’Celet accidentally reveals who she really is by revealing she had done corsets on Shepard before. Shepard apologizes for putting Aeran in her current position, but Aeran tells her that eventually she was creating for her because the quarian wanted to, and wanted to protect Shepard. With the air finally clear between the three of them, Aeran and Shepard joke about weapon placement in the wedding dress.
After the dress-makers leave Shepard finds herself drifting into the iborihe, and sees an ancient harbor with sunken obsidian ruins. Garrus ends up startling her out of her vision. The two of them find themselves walking on eggshells around each other, as much from the fallout of Shepard’s illness and the lies surrounding it as being unused to cohabitating again. Despite this, they end up sharing a shower. Under the stream of hot water, Garrus asks Shepard to show him the planet she saw. She does, unsure if the planet is real but buoyed by Garrus’ certainty that it is. The two of them make love in the shower, feeling connected to each other, though Shepard is caught between the “now” and her vision.
After their shower, the two of them help each other with getting ready for the remainder of their day, joking about the two of them being “respectable”. Then in a mercurial shift after Shepard asks about a classified meeting Garrus is having with Sparatus, the issue of the months of broken trust leaves them on a sour note.
=== Title Meaning ===
=== Easter Eggs ===
Discord Highlights: Why nobody yeeted the dead Reapers into the sun, THEY ADDED TENTACLES TO THE THRESHER MAWS IN MELE, and istie starting book four.