[He's watching the whole event silently. No, he has not gone to sleep yet, even though he may need it soon. He'd never let himself get caught sleeping where he doesn't deem it safe, and this habit is allowing him to see every single thing in the network.
A boy fighting another just because his female partner had been killed... A young man? woman? being stabbed in the chest by a bare hand after seeing another woman killed... Yet another boy being beaten to death by his own kin... A man screaming at the top of his lungs...
All somewhat interesting, now that he's seen the nightmares of the others. But he focuses on this, because it's different. It's not bloody, it's not gruesome... It's simple, and straight to the point.]
Wake up. [He's not sure if she can hear him though.]
But it's -- [ she breaks off, cringing in on herself as she backs away from the hand she'd touched, face clouding over with a pain more than physical ]
[ And that look of horror across her face. She has to fight it. She has to! But it's too late again; the cold is sweeping through her already. ]
Callisto Suite. I'm -- [ ah, and she's down again. Why was it her feet always went first? Stop breathing so hard, Elraine, you know what comes next. Fight the pain. ]
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A boy fighting another just because his female partner had been killed... A young man? woman? being stabbed in the chest by a bare hand after seeing another woman killed... Yet another boy being beaten to death by his own kin... A man screaming at the top of his lungs...
All somewhat interesting, now that he's seen the nightmares of the others. But he focuses on this, because it's different. It's not bloody, it's not gruesome... It's simple, and straight to the point.]
Wake up. [He's not sure if she can hear him though.]
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Wake up?
[ A moment before her hand touches down on the outstretched palm of the passenger. ]
I'm not sleeping.
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-- real. It's happened!
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[ And that look of horror across her face. She has to fight it. She has to! But it's too late again; the cold is sweeping through her already. ]
Callisto Suite. I'm -- [ ah, and she's down again. Why was it her feet always went first? Stop breathing so hard, Elraine, you know what comes next. Fight the pain. ]
-- trying --
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Is - is this... [she swallows] Is this what happens? When you absorb Troy?
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When the levels are too concentrated --
[ Creeping steadily upward, and then the fingers of one hand are gone. The exposed hand, in this case; just fading into invisibility. ]
-- the seizures start. [ She's sweating pretty heavily by now, and gasping for air. When she gets the last bit out, it's with considerable effort. ]
It's what happens to everyone with the disease. You fade away.
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