“His wife and children were killed in the attack, years of work ruined. Everything fell apart. He went mad.
Oh, I see, a bit more indirect than I was thinking.
I’m still not ruling out that the Simurgh has a passive power that makes madness like this more likely after her visit, if not necessarily one that actively, directly makes people mad.
He cut himself off from the rest of the world. Literally sealed himself away.”
Wow.
That would explain the lack of facial features.
Colin looked at the cases that surrounded each individual body part. Each body part a self-contained system. Everything nonessential stripped away and replaced.
Cut away from the world, cut away from his humanity, cut away from each part of himself as best he can manage…
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