carved, marble, and crack
“So, loco, what's he like downthere?”Alistair looked James dead in the eyeas he deadpanned “Imagine God taking a duck for inspiration. Thenhe carved it out of alien dick and put it on the inside.”
Alistair Shepard had always been pale – likemilk, they used to say back on Mindoir. All he could really do wasburn and freckle, so he put it out of his mind. It wasn't untilGarrus said his skin reminded him of marble that he realized beingthat pale wasn't so bad after all.
He had always thought the commanderwouldn't crack, but James realized that afternoon he was wrong.Seeing Alistair-fucking-Shepard, the guy who ate Omega 4 forbreakfast, curled up on the floor and hyperventilating was almost toomuch to take in. And yet, even a reaper's worst nightmare had theirproblems: not having his medicine filled for almost a month was his.