[It only renews the hilarity, when he breaks. Shepard is helpless for it, for a while, and even when she finally clears past the giggles there's still laughter in her voice.]

That's awful. [It was pretty good, actually.] She'd shoot you for real.

[She'd love this. Well, not the joke itself, Tali would have something to say about that, but this: the drinks and the stargazing and the night of simple togetherness. Like family.]

Y'know I like to think I know you pretty well, Garrus, but you keep surprising me.