Brian moved his lips, but no sound came out. He tried to raise his head, as much as the ceiling allowed, his eyes raised towards the sky. There was a cauterised scar just above his collarbone.
Ahh. They removed his vocal cords.
“I could make it quick,” Ballistic said.
“No,” I told him.
Look, Taylor, I understand, but in this situation euthanasia is probably justified. I don’t think even Panacea could help him here, due to the technological stuff involved.
But time to say goodbyes might be nice, at least.
“It’d be a mercy.”
“No,” I shook my head. “No. We have options. Panacea-”
I considered that several paragraphs before I actually managed to work it into my commentary, yet I still ended up talking about it right before Taylor did.
“Is nowhere to be found,” Tattletale told me, “And given what happened with Mannequin, she’s going to be as far as she can get from downtown.”
That is also true.
“Then Bonesaw,” I said, clenching my fists. “Bonesaw can fix him.”
How do you intend to get her to do that?
Does Regent’s control work with tinker powers?
“She’s not going to fix him. I doubt she’d do it on pain of death,” Tattletale told me. “Skitter-”
“We’ll try,” I told her. “At least try.”
Fair enough.
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