Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-33162207-20171216015011/@comment-26120744-20171221212610

You're pathetic. Etebus snarled

Excuse me? Nick thought back.

''You don't even know her. At all, yet the sight of her end shakes you to the soul. Why?''

She's human. Nick responded. I value human life.

Etebus chuckled as if conversing with a naive child. Well then, perhaps we can make a deal.

A deal? Nick thought curiously.

''The human body is merely a machine of flesh and blood, none and sinew. She is dead now, but the meat is fresh. A transfusion here, a organ knitting there, and she'll be right as rain. Relatively speaking.''

..... What's the catch? Nick thought back angrily.

I have no access to your frontal lobe. Erebus said. ''I cannot share with your the blessed vices of bloodletting. I will save her, but know that the sanctity of your mind is forfeit.''

Nick looked down at Susie, then at his hands. He could save someone's life, but he'd risk losing himself. What would it matter saving others if his very mind can be rewritten?

Fine. Nick said. Do it.