Sounds like you've had all the bad luck, until now.
[ The hand catches John's attention, but he's polite enough not to stare.
In his line of work, everyone is missing some integral part of themselves. You couldn't kill people for a living and stay whole.
You either start off broken, end up broken, or die. For some people it happens all at once, in a violent snap. For others it's a process, multiple fractures occurring over time. Either way, whatever tenuous, invisible, cement that holds a person's soul to their body gives way, and they become someone else. More than, or less than, the person they were before.
John looks up at the ceiling. There's a maintenance hatch. Always is. ]
If we're between floors, might be there's a door right above us. We could try climbing up and jacking it open. I could put The Dog on my shoulders. He'd stay.
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[ The hand catches John's attention, but he's polite enough not to stare.
In his line of work, everyone is missing some integral part of themselves. You couldn't kill people for a living and stay whole.
You either start off broken, end up broken, or die. For some people it happens all at once, in a violent snap. For others it's a process, multiple fractures occurring over time. Either way, whatever tenuous, invisible, cement that holds a person's soul to their body gives way, and they become someone else. More than, or less than, the person they were before.
John looks up at the ceiling. There's a maintenance hatch. Always is. ]
If we're between floors, might be there's a door right above us. We could try climbing up and jacking it open. I could put The Dog on my shoulders. He'd stay.