[ He looks as if he's about to protest, but then she takes his arm and he has to pause. She's right, he's probably jumping to conclusions. ]
... I don't want to hurt you.
[ It's all he says after a long period of uneasy silence. A sentence that he's said before with equal amounts of anguish. ]
The medicine does not reverse the transformation, it only stalls the process. Even then it is not perfect. Every day the poison in my blood burns a little stronger. [ And the day of reckoning draws ever closer. ] I am cursed to bring ruin. The Company only lets me live until they can find a way for me to die.
[ Without losing his sanity, he means. Towards the end of his sentence his voice becomes uncharacteristically bitter, though his emotional restraint dampens it greatly as if he was speaking about something that happened to another person. ]
no subject
... I don't want to hurt you.
[ It's all he says after a long period of uneasy silence. A sentence that he's said before with equal amounts of anguish. ]
The medicine does not reverse the transformation, it only stalls the process. Even then it is not perfect. Every day the poison in my blood burns a little stronger. [ And the day of reckoning draws ever closer. ] I am cursed to bring ruin. The Company only lets me live until they can find a way for me to die.
[ Without losing his sanity, he means. Towards the end of his sentence his voice becomes uncharacteristically bitter, though his emotional restraint dampens it greatly as if he was speaking about something that happened to another person. ]