So, I'd just like to take a moment to say...

> Returning from her reverie, Shepard decided she preferred the
> sight of Liara in the present to the image of her from the past. She
> was dressed now not in ill-fitting space armor, but a neatly tailored
> semiformal suit, the kind with a snug-fitting skirt that reached to just
> below the knee. Discreetly glamorous, flattering but not titillating,
> it fitted the academic environment as well as it did the woman wearing
> it. Her face hadn't visibly changed apart from some very slight, very
> professional makeup work. At 232 she was still quite young for an
> asari, and she still had the rounded cheeks and smooth complexion of
> youth. And, Shepard noticed with a private little smile, the same
> scattershot of pigmentation spots that exactly resembled, but which she
> insisted were not, freckles.

...Thank you for this wonderful mental image.