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Garrus's focus wavered from calibrating the anti-aircraft guns as he caught sight of Zaeed flying, and Shepard too busy cocking and pulling her boomstick at Husks to notice the looming threat of a particle beam headed straight for her. He sprinted over, tackling her to the ground behind some crates as the blast narrowly missed them. He swiped alerts from his visor, “That was a little too close,” and didn’t notice her soft hand slipping around his neck. “Not close enough,” she murmured, pulling him down into the first of many adrenaline-fuelled stolen moments in cover together, hidden from Cerberus.