Aquiver is panting.

"I understand they want to learn from them, and me too! I value knowledge, that's why I'm going to choose the City of Epiphany! But it's torture!" She howls

"Friends are killing friends. Blood runs in rivulets and it won't stop. If we don't find a cure soon.. I don't want to loose myself like that. Aquiver, I don't! I'm scared!"

I don't know when I started shrieking.

But suddenly I'm screaming and she's dissociating and we're flatlining.

She's damaged and so am I.