There's a couple of reactions that happen in him. One, it's jealousy. Because it hurt for so long. The process of change from the mauling through the entire first shed had been nightmarish and painful.
The second is that he might be able to fix that. Sometimes his inoculation rebuilds neural pathways. They stop and repair degradation in the infected if he gets to them before they're dead, and it could work on someone who wasn't even infected with HZ1. It would be a chance, but he's already seen how people treat things like him. And there are pretty heavy obligations on this guy's plate that he's sure he'd feel at the edge of his consciousness.
It's obvious, though, he thinks about something for a couple of moments, a full beat of him looking off to the side and rubbing his thumb thoughtfully over his lower lip.
But then he comes back out of the consideration, shaking it off. "Being dragged into Scrabble and fighting over it is the height of normal. Oh god how would Scrabble even work with the SCAs? I'm imagining I'd just look at the board and vomit from overload."
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The second is that he might be able to fix that. Sometimes his inoculation rebuilds neural pathways. They stop and repair degradation in the infected if he gets to them before they're dead, and it could work on someone who wasn't even infected with HZ1. It would be a chance, but he's already seen how people treat things like him. And there are pretty heavy obligations on this guy's plate that he's sure he'd feel at the edge of his consciousness.
It's obvious, though, he thinks about something for a couple of moments, a full beat of him looking off to the side and rubbing his thumb thoughtfully over his lower lip.
But then he comes back out of the consideration, shaking it off. "Being dragged into Scrabble and fighting over it is the height of normal. Oh god how would Scrabble even work with the SCAs? I'm imagining I'd just look at the board and vomit from overload."