And What Shoulder, & What Art

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Series Begun:
2015-05-31
Series Updated:
2015-07-21
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Resurrection is an ugly business even when gods do it; men with delusions of godhood just butcher the people they try to bring back from the dead. Shepard wakes up on a Cerberus slab, sliced up and sewn back together by the organization that murdered her entire unit on Akuze all those years ago. She must find a way to survive being crushed in the Illusive Man's grip while dealing with PTSD resultant from her death at Alchera and the subsequent Lazarus Project. Trapped and forced to work with an organization that has tried time and time again to kill her, shut out by nearly every person she ever trusted, and abandoned by the Alliance, she has no choice but to complete her mission with only Garrus by her side.

This series will cover the time from the beginning of Mass Effect 2 to the beginning of Mass Effect 3. I might add some stuff that takes place during the third game if I'm feeling enterprising, but no promises.

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In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand, dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder, & what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain,
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp,
Dare its deadly terrors clasp!

When the stars threw down their spears
And water'd heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

- William Blake, "The Tyger"

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