[You know. Passenger has lived through a lot in his life. From having his professor assassinated, to detonating an Originium bomb part just to make sure it didn't fall into the hands of people who would use it for evil, to being enslaved, to taking revenge on those slavers and the Lord Ameer that killed his professor in the first place by spending twenty years of his life on some convoluted revenge plot. It's a lot to cram into 37 years of life, and yet, in those 37 years...
He has never had someone purposely infect themself by using him as a conduit. That sort of thing doesn't happen on Rhodes Island, or on Terra, not unless the person is suicidal or part of some death cult.
There's blood trickling down his forehead, which Pure Vanilla winds up cleaning off, but on the second pass, Elliot snatches the wrist of his now-Infected hand and stares at the wound with an expression bordering on enraged. Were Passenger more outwardly emotional, his facial expressions might actually reach that threshold.]
What would compel you to do that? [He asks, voice sharp as the crystal on his forehead.] Do you have any idea what you've done?
[Passenger infected himself long ago with that Originium bomb part... and Doctor Kal'tsit, his saviour and most resented person, had said those same words to him. Oh how the tables turn.]
cws: mentions of child slavery and suicide
He has never had someone purposely infect themself by using him as a conduit. That sort of thing doesn't happen on Rhodes Island, or on Terra, not unless the person is suicidal or part of some death cult.
There's blood trickling down his forehead, which Pure Vanilla winds up cleaning off, but on the second pass, Elliot snatches the wrist of his now-Infected hand and stares at the wound with an expression bordering on enraged. Were Passenger more outwardly emotional, his facial expressions might actually reach that threshold.]
What would compel you to do that? [He asks, voice sharp as the crystal on his forehead.] Do you have any idea what you've done?
[Passenger infected himself long ago with that Originium bomb part... and Doctor Kal'tsit, his saviour and most resented person, had said those same words to him. Oh how the tables turn.]