He was about to apologize when Dragon said, “Those prosthetics I gave you? They were part of a bigger project. Something I’d intended to use for myself.”
…
She was trying to make herself a body. A human-like body.
And she’s taking this opportunity to tell the truth about what she is, isn’t she?
I’m sorry, Dragon. I underestimated you.
She was a cripple? He’d known she had survived Leviathan’s attack on Newfoundland, was it such a surprise that she’d gotten hurt then?
I suppose this is a quite reasonable first guess at what she’s talking about.
It would explain her aversion to showing her face. One of the things she’d given him was a facial prosthetic.
True.
“I’m sorry,” he said, “I didn’t know.”
“No, it’s not that,” she paused. “There’s something you need to know about me.”
This is a big moment in their relationship and I hope we’re not about to cut it off before Armmaster’s reaction.
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