"Probably just getting tenure, in another dimension, and on alien world, or has it just not sunk in for you yet?" Twenty years ago, Mordin probably hadn't been older than fifteen, not yet the famous, infamous virologist he would eventually become, but no less brilliant.

And he might as well not have existed, so far as Joel and Tess were concerned. But he did now, and Shepard had never been the kind of woman who missed opportunities.

"We are not in Kansas anymore. The rules are different-- including what's impossible."