[She shouldn't let that sit, let a beat of silence stretch out. It sounds like he's running short on time and that's no point for her to go grasping at straws - but it takes her a beat to follow the transmission. She can't accept his apology (it means validating that he even needed to say it; that there was any reason for him to apologize when in reality he'd just been doing the job he'd set out to do - same as any of them, same as she would've done). But she also can't agree that any of this is his fault; Garrus might have agreed to mission parameters, but he sure as hell didn't set them and this kind of bullshit frittering away from personnel didn't serve any purpose except to prove a point - not if what Armada had said held any truth to it.
She should say the pleasure's been all hers, maybe. Say goodbye. What she goes with is:] I'll find who sent this order down the chain, Garrus.
[And somewhere out there, CDC brass is probably listening in; if it sounds like a threat, that's probably because it is.]
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She should say the pleasure's been all hers, maybe. Say goodbye. What she goes with is:] I'll find who sent this order down the chain, Garrus.
[And somewhere out there, CDC brass is probably listening in; if it sounds like a threat, that's probably because it is.]