Your eyes slowly opened to the dimly illuminated room that had been your home for some weeks, the room that you had shared with Anne. It was a room you were no longer required to be restrained to. Anne, along with the Clockworkers had crushed the Enlightened when she had come to rescue you. A rescue attempt that while appreciated was one that you could have done without, as while they tried to break your body and mind you had worked on getting information from them.
While you hadn't learned much in the time you were there, you were certain that with time, you could have found out a lot from Pride, as Pride himself would have been forced to deal with you. You could have played games with Pride, made him believe that if he talked with you that you would co-operate with him.
The one thing that you had learned, was that Pride fed them chunks of his own corrupted flesh to invoke the change from a person, to change them into what they had all become. He fed them his heavily tainted flesh and somehow from there he was able to control how that taint changed them, preventing them from becoming yet another mindless abomination.
Truth be told, you felt that they weren't that far off mindless abominations as it was.
You had only learned this however, as Pride had made an attempt to feed you a lump of his flesh, to use it to take control of you. He had been infuriated when he found that it had no effect on you, when he had found that your body simply couldn't be tainted. He couldn't take control of your mind, so he wanted to break it. His elite hadn't been very good at that, either, as their attempts to invade your psyche so they could mentally assault you were no more effective than their limp wristed attempts to whip you.
Arms tightened about your waist as you went to get out of bed, holding you in position as you felt warm breath against the back of your neck. "Stop moving so much," came Anne's voice from behind you followed by a sigh. "You're warm."
Your mind raced back to the night before, to how you had cradled Anne in your arms as you carried her from the abandoned prisons. You had had worried at first that she wouldn't actually recover as at first she didn't seem to be recovering, her body didn't seem to be knitting the damage as it usually did. It wasn't until you managed to get her past the automatons, past the operators and out beneath the night sky that she had started to slowly but surely regenerate.
The operators had seemed shocked to see she was one of the Enlightened, though they did nothing to deny you requested one of their jackets so you could cover her over, stating that her own clothing was hardly going to keep her decent if they denied this. The jacket had been ruined quickly by this as her ichor soaked into it, it had done the job that it was required for however, allowing you to carry her back through the streets to the Technomancers guild.
You had gone beneath notice as you slipped away, carrying Anne back to safety.
When she had recovered consciousness, having healed fully by this point she had expressed how she didn't want to sleep alone tonight, how she was afraid after what had happened. After taking the injuries she had, after the shock of dealing with the people she had at one point known as her brothers and sisters you had figured that it was the right thing to do, the compassionate thing to do.
Despite the night before, you got the feeling that she was content right now, that the fact it was all over, that she wasn't left alone to deal with the ruins of what had been her previous life was reassuring.
You knew that today was going to be fun, with the guild master no doubt wanting to talk to you, no doubt wanting an explanation of why you had brought one of the Enlightened back with you. The fact that he hadn't said anything when you returned worried you, the fact that he had stood there expressionlessly staring at you and Anne made you wonder if he had suspected that she was one of the Enlightened all along.
"Actually, you should go and make breakfast for us to celebrate," came Anne's voice as she slipped her arms from about you, her hands pressing against your back as she assisted you in getting out of bed.
"You just want my bed to yourself," you responded with a sigh, as you allowed yourself to be manouvered towards the edge of the bed.
"Yes, but that shouldn't stop you making breakfast," came Anne's contented reply as she pulled the covers about herself, curling into a ball behind you.
You glanced back at her, one eyebrow raised as she opened an eye and made a shooing motion at you. You found yourself torn, did you wrestle back your covers, go and make breakfast as she was directing you, or did you climb into her bed and go back to sleep to make a point?You have a point to spend.Earth: 4 - (Resiliance)
Fire: 5 - (Marksman)
Air: 7 - (Tactics)
Water: 5 - (Reading People)
Powers:
0 - Ageless.
You have all of eternity to complete your tasks, forever in your prime.
1 (f) - Quickened Healing.
Seven fold is your natural recovery rate increased.
2 (fm) - Unkillable.
Death cannot claim you. Injury, poison, disease and the like still have their effects however, along with their associated downtime.
2 (fv) - Presence of the Immortal.
The presence of eternity can be an awe inspiring thing, yet you are able to inspire more than simple awe.
Points Pool: 1
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