Kaidan's normally quietly confident in his ass-kicking capabilities, but with his biotics offline and his omni-tool and all its sentinel's programs no-where to be found... let's just say that he doesn't tackle York in an attempt to be the one taking point. (And, to be honest, he's never been one to go charging out like some vanguard type anyway.)

He's still reeling from the blast wave of emotion -- not his, foreign, alien in that sense, but all too human in others -- when he hears the sounds of pursuit. Reaching out to place a hand on York's shoulder, he signals him back deeper into cover. As Diya and the ghem-doctor pelt past them, he mouths a nearly silent "What the hell was that?" to the others. Clearly, he's felt it too.