AUDIENCE 🚀 GREGOR

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To step into your own mind like that...

[ you really were 14 like a couple minutes ago they will not forget that. it makes it worse to think about. ]

May I ask... Who was that... who put you through that? Who did that to you?

[verminous]

Did what to me, this?

[gesturing to the arm, before his gaze flicks over to the tattoo on his arm.]

...her name's Hermann. Used to be a director of G Corp, before it fell-- she's the one who operated on me.

She came out better than just about anyone else, after the former G Corp went under. Still around, still... just as powerful as she was then.

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[ makes a face at that because like. of course people who torture other people just get to do whatever the hell they so please. ]

Testing and training...

[ they glance toward the other arm briefly but just settle back. ] That as well?

[verminous]

Well, it wasn't me who left that mark, I'll say that much.

[lighting the cigarette and taking a long drag.]

...Ungeziefer. Vermin, in our language.

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[ they hum and go silent a moment, watching him smoke.

I keep thinking the world can't get crueler, that maybe it's reached its limit.

[ for anyone, here, home, all-encompassing. ]

[verminous]

People are inventive, Io.

[there aren't limits for that.]

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I'm well-versed in being let down in this way, hah.

Call me foolishly hopeful.

[verminous]

... it's not a bad thing. Just means you still have it in you to have that hope.

[dropoffs]

Mm. To press on is all I've really known.

[verminous]

Sometimes that's all you can do.

... we're still going, though.

[dropoffs]

We are. [ a faint, tight smile. ] And I'm glad for that. For us both. These things, they make up a part of us, terrible though they are. We can use that.