"That sounds accurate," Shepard says. She hadn't exactly had an easy time swallowing the information the other woman fed her via comms the day before, but she figured that had a lot to do with getting the abridged version of the story. Now, she wanted the unabridged version.

"So," Shepard says, folding her arms over her chest. "I'm dead. How did this happen?"

That seems like the best place to start.