[if he was supposed to apologize for breaking the ice, it never happens. and while it does appear that the girl near him would rather be left alone, he has his own set of interests in understanding their predicaments. it's obvious that the both of them are biologically engineered to set them apart from the rest of humanity. parasitic flower, meet parasitic heart.]
The flower in your eye, then.
[captain obvious over here, pointing out... well, the obvious.
he's spent so long researching how to keep the BOR parasite at bay, investigating how to produce more blood beads for consumption that it's almost impossible to imagine there are other sympathetic lifeforms out there that like to mingle with their hosts at a molecular level.]
Maybe when this is all done, we can compare notes. I would've taken the Nokken on myself, but it seems that these guys are ready to throw their lives away faster than I could get there myself.
[he doesn't want them to die, after all. not that he knows what a Nokken is, but by reports of what he's heard around town, sending normal people to clean up after the mess it's left in its wake seems like a death march.]
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The flower in your eye, then.
[captain obvious over here, pointing out... well, the obvious.
he's spent so long researching how to keep the BOR parasite at bay, investigating how to produce more blood beads for consumption that it's almost impossible to imagine there are other sympathetic lifeforms out there that like to mingle with their hosts at a molecular level.]
Maybe when this is all done, we can compare notes. I would've taken the Nokken on myself, but it seems that these guys are ready to throw their lives away faster than I could get there myself.
[he doesn't want them to die, after all. not that he knows what a Nokken is, but by reports of what he's heard around town, sending normal people to clean up after the mess it's left in its wake seems like a death march.]