holy...I seriously can't describe how good this fic is. It's so... atmospheric,I didn't even notice the time passing that too with such a genuine OC. Seriously,A Masterpiece.

Thank you for this story.

It's one of the best story out there and one of the most well-written.

Dark, gritty and depressing. I'd say it was too short, but that's probably due to it being too frickin awesome.

If I had to describe this all in word, I'd call it bittersweet. A bittersweet gem in the midst of the piles of shit that FF Net seems to be full of.

I've loved Sorono's appearances in your other stories. He's a fantastic character. I have a special fondness for well-written fics featuring or even starring OCs, and this one was superb.

This is really well written. Would like to have seen bigger differences between human and turian procedures.

I'm already impressed - your first person POV voice is so strong and we're already in the first chapter. You have a deft hand for quickly characterizing your cast (say that three times fast!), and you've created an evocative, vivid environment. I don't know into what configuration the characters will fall, but I'm looking forward finding out.

Wrapped up perfectly, and a great read throughout. Just reading this makes me hear saxophone music in the background. Well done! Look forward to more from you.

Aaaand, finished - even gave everyone's favorite turian a cameo. Thanks, now I can fly back satisfied (laughs at own joke).

Just reread the whole thing. Holy crap.
It starts off as a straight noire fix, evolves into a pitched 24-style deathmatch, and ends as a somber reflective. This while retaining a crapsack world atmosphere and an undertone of UST which you secretly hope might turn out okay, but doesn't (personally hoping Sor meets somebody that he doesn't need to shoot later, but it's your show, not mine). Again, holy crap.

All in all, heckuva job. I keep wondering when the graphic novel will come out, then I realize this is a fanfic. Bummer,
Keep on writing, we're all waiting for more :).

This was a fantastic story great job.

My new gold standard for gritty, grimy, low-tech, everyone-loses-nobody-wins, cigarettes-and-trenchcoats Mass Effect stories. Wish there were more of them.

Garrus' final exchange with Sol... damn but he read him well.

(Also, I surely didn't know Sol was Malcom Reynolds)

It's definitively an exceptionally well written story. No doubt about that.

But, as the character, impossible not to be left without a bad taste in the mouth. It's dark, despairing. Not everything in life ends with a happy ending. I guess I'm a sucker for it.

Now, I sound now I don't like it because if it. It couldn't farthest from the truth. It's a little gem.

Any chance for a sequel?

I love how this wraps around back to the beginning, so that the first-person account we've been reading becomes a very particular testimony for a very particular audience.

Plus, I always like Garrus and Sorono together, and here they show just exactly how well they understand each other after all these years, even if taunting of each other is their standard form of communication.

Masterful. Just perfect. My regard for this story is just sky-high right now.

This story has got to be one of the gems of the Mass Effect archive. Gritty realism, an entire cast of wholly-believable characters with their own motivations, desires, identities and lives, an engaging plot with a series of unexpected twists and turns, dark yet poignant moments (this chapter in particular) and a general sense that everything that happens in it is /real/.

The writing itself is solid, the sentences short and sharp with no unnecessary details and near-perfect control of grammar, sentence structure and spelling.

One might expect me to say something on the lines of "This should be part of canon somewhere, even if it has no canon characters" as part of my next set of praises. That would be an insult. This story doesn't need to be part of the canon storyline. It doesn't need to be mentioned in the canon storyline. This story just /is/.

Absolutely brilliant, and I'm glad I found it when I did.