04-23-2018, 02:29 PM
“I am going to cry your pardon, then, because I’m obviously not good at getting across what I was trying to. Whatever the case is, if this design pleases you? I don’t think you’ll find anything to complain about being in a body that looks like that.” Yet another reminder that he should just stick with his stronger points, he supposed. He was good at dealing with his problems, with his calling, and women… well, women, even other artificial ones, weren’t part of that calling that he was good at.
Thankfully, she gave him something to think about there. Dying… what was it like? That question brought hundreds of memories, experiences that had been unlocked in his mind after they’d been supposedly sealed away forever, sliding back into the forefront of his consciousness. “Pain… I’m going to skip over the obvious bits about it being unpleasant and distracting and debilitating at times, because obviously there’s no real way for me to describe it to you in a way that’ll make sense to you. You don’t have the reference yet, although I’m sorry to say that you will. The worst part… The worst part is that moment of realization that you could fail, that you’re not unbeatable, not unkillable. You could succumb to the very real physical limitations we all have, that your body might decide that it was time for it to stop working. And when you die… Well, sometimes it’s too fast to know it. Other times… I think the worst thing about it is regret. You have time to think of all the things you won’t ever do, or won’t do again. There’s not much of a more desperate feeling than that.”
@kel
Thankfully, she gave him something to think about there. Dying… what was it like? That question brought hundreds of memories, experiences that had been unlocked in his mind after they’d been supposedly sealed away forever, sliding back into the forefront of his consciousness. “Pain… I’m going to skip over the obvious bits about it being unpleasant and distracting and debilitating at times, because obviously there’s no real way for me to describe it to you in a way that’ll make sense to you. You don’t have the reference yet, although I’m sorry to say that you will. The worst part… The worst part is that moment of realization that you could fail, that you’re not unbeatable, not unkillable. You could succumb to the very real physical limitations we all have, that your body might decide that it was time for it to stop working. And when you die… Well, sometimes it’s too fast to know it. Other times… I think the worst thing about it is regret. You have time to think of all the things you won’t ever do, or won’t do again. There’s not much of a more desperate feeling than that.”
@kel