“And I can turn pain off like I’m flicking a switch. Don’t want to do that on a permanent basis, but it does make this easier to deal with.”
Huh, neat.
So I wasn’t even hurting her. Damn it.
“It’s still annoying.”
Well, fuck, you may have just made yourself the first patient.
Or maybe the last. It depends on whether or not she sees her operation as a punishment or as a privilege.
I could feel my bugs congregating on her as she put the aerosol down and fumbled around inside her pockets. Test tubes: I could feel the long, smooth glass. She dropped something into each, then stabbed the aerosol can.
…something to make it more effective?
The smoke that plumed out killed most of the bugs in the area. I couldn’t follow what she did with the can and the test tubes.
Probably nothing good.