Yes, same. [She laughs nervously. Then looks to her hands, frowning. The rust has coated her palms now, echoing every time she's had to scramble through thorns upon thorns. She's dead sick of the reminder by now.]
Gregor, I...would it be inappropriate to ask about what happened to you?
his own pattern of rust seems to shift, actually. now and then the patches of it change location, as if he has too many injuries for all of them to be covered at once.]
[She watches the rust swirl over him. She knows very well that Rodya was serious about them dying and being brought back to life, over and over again. It was conditional, but it happened.
She just didn't like the implication all that much.]
Your Abnormality. The um, transformations you took on.
It's not exactly the Abnormality itself, but we can... use their power that way, more or less. We take on their identity and emotions, sort of like we do with our other selves-- it's like being influenced by the Abnormality's thoughts.
[and, as she saw...]
If you're not mentally stable enough to keep yourself separated from it, though, and you let it take you over... you saw what happens then.
[Rosamund frowns. It does and doesn't sound like things she knows. The terminology muddies the explanation for her—] Ego, or E-G-O? [— and the concept itself follows a different brand of logic than she's used to.
But the basics, sure. Corruption and alternate selves. There's a common link there.]
So it's a power that can be made to consume you, and you can...Um, is it right to say you absorb some of it when you encounter it? It sounds like they start off as separate from you, but then when you meet them it triggers something similar inside of you.
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...Everything is just a little bit terrible, honestly. But only a little bit!
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[this is not that bad, honestly.]
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Gregor, I...would it be inappropriate to ask about what happened to you?
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[is she curious about something else?
his own pattern of rust seems to shift, actually. now and then the patches of it change location, as if he has too many injuries for all of them to be covered at once.]
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She just didn't like the implication all that much.]
Your Abnormality. The um, transformations you took on.
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[he's quiet for a couple seconds.]
It's not exactly the Abnormality itself, but we can... use their power that way, more or less. We take on their identity and emotions, sort of like we do with our other selves-- it's like being influenced by the Abnormality's thoughts.
[and, as she saw...]
If you're not mentally stable enough to keep yourself separated from it, though, and you let it take you over... you saw what happens then.
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But the basics, sure. Corruption and alternate selves. There's a common link there.]
So it's a power that can be made to consume you, and you can...Um, is it right to say you absorb some of it when you encounter it? It sounds like they start off as separate from you, but then when you meet them it triggers something similar inside of you.