Re: Shepard and Darcy
Darcy has given Ashley a little space to talk with her mother. It had been a while, and he wanted them to be able to talk candidly without worrying about his presence. Plus, although he had read back on the network to see what had happened when he was older, he wasn’t entirely sure how Shepard felt about him right now. The hug had been a surprise, but it had confused him more than cleared anything up.
So there was a bit of a deer in the headlights look about him when she first spoke, although it passed in a couple of seconds when he’d processed what she had just said. “Me? Oh, I think I should be the one to thank you for coming,” he told her softly, giving her a little bow.