It's Lord of the Flies in my mind tonight
Wessex nods. “I can. If you come find me some other time, I’ll be happy to teach you small things like that.” But not right now; they’ve spent more than enough time on this, and maybe if the boy practices, he will have something to show the Wraith next time. As to his next question - well, it might be time for another demonstration. Taking a knife out of her other boot, Wessex holds out her hand and takes the tip of the blade to her pinky finger. Pressing it into her nanites, she cuts deep enough for some of her fluid to drip out.
“We aren’t robots. Our nervous system and organs have been altered” (read: removed, but she isn’t about to tell him that) “- so that we don’t feel pain and don’t need to be kept alive with blood and air and food. That doesn’t mean that we aren’t hurt the same way everyone else is. We won’t bleed internally, aren’t susceptible to biological infections, but we do take physical damage.” That’s about as much as she’s willing to reveal, especially if he doesn’t know these things already.
Wiping the fluid against her clothing, Wessex resheathes her knife. She’s tired of teaching. Time to do her own thing. “Like I said, come find me if you want to learn more.”
{Fin for Wessex!}
“We aren’t robots. Our nervous system and organs have been altered” (read: removed, but she isn’t about to tell him that) “- so that we don’t feel pain and don’t need to be kept alive with blood and air and food. That doesn’t mean that we aren’t hurt the same way everyone else is. We won’t bleed internally, aren’t susceptible to biological infections, but we do take physical damage.” That’s about as much as she’s willing to reveal, especially if he doesn’t know these things already.
Wiping the fluid against her clothing, Wessex resheathes her knife. She’s tired of teaching. Time to do her own thing. “Like I said, come find me if you want to learn more.”
{Fin for Wessex!}
