[ A virus wouldn't quite work on implants like theirs, he doesn't think, but the idea of it still -- chills him. The tension that moves through him as he listens is very real, that slight anger in his eyes, but he's watching, too, sees that protectiveness. That is a real loyalty, there.
A soft sound. ]
I'm glad for that, then. [ Genuine, though obviously he can only be so glad when he doesn't know Illyan himself, but from what he's heard, he seems a good man. ] In my case, I wouldn't want this removed. It might kill me if it was, and it doubt it'd undo the effects it's had. There wasn't really a virus, or anything, the implant did it's job. They just didn't really think it through.
And the problem with memory like that, is that you can't control what you remember.
[ So everything. The madness, the insanity, what it feels like to be driven to the brink, the pain of literally tearing yourself apart. The memories of someone else, tangled so closely with his own that it took him years to learn how to pull them apart, and he still remembers the wrong things, sometimes. ]
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A soft sound. ]
I'm glad for that, then. [ Genuine, though obviously he can only be so glad when he doesn't know Illyan himself, but from what he's heard, he seems a good man. ] In my case, I wouldn't want this removed. It might kill me if it was, and it doubt it'd undo the effects it's had. There wasn't really a virus, or anything, the implant did it's job. They just didn't really think it through.
And the problem with memory like that, is that you can't control what you remember.
[ So everything. The madness, the insanity, what it feels like to be driven to the brink, the pain of literally tearing yourself apart. The memories of someone else, tangled so closely with his own that it took him years to learn how to pull them apart, and he still remembers the wrong things, sometimes. ]