05-15-2020, 05:27 PM
He was right, and Dorian wasn't sure he'd change even knowing what he could mess up. Though he had changed - maybe not for the better but he had changed. Wise words from a stranger. Wasn't that always the way.
The grim things that they had all seen. Dorian didn't know what man the stranger spoke of, but the scientist in the tunnels - there could be more, but doubtful. "I shot him three times in the head. At least as long as there are not more scientists lurking in the tunnels. He was one of them - bitten by those things that got my friend. He didn't have one arm when you met him."
Dorian laughed, "No he was curled up in a ball on the alleyway pavement with a ring of debris around him as he protected himself from his own brethren." The Atharim had cornered Nox, he'd protected himself. Nearly cooked himself alive.
And he still fights - knowing they'll hunt him till he's dead. And he's not even angry. That pisses Dorian off more than anything else, "The boy gets attacked and still does his job. I asked him to find the body of the man who was not there when my officers went to retrieve the evidence. He waltzed into the tunnels with both arms. Confronted another man sentenced to the same death, and found our scientist walking among the monsters. Three bullet holes in his head, vacant eyes. Dead but walking."
Dorian shuttered at the thought of seeing such a thing. Only in movies, had he ever seen such things, and Nox jumped in the middle and saved Officer Lih's life. Forfeiting his own - and for what? That's what the drink is for. Glad I'm not him. Glad it wasn't me who faced those things. I'll bring whoever I need to to justice, would hid whatever they asked of me. But I'm mortally grateful I do not face those dangers. A drink for the lives lost protecting humanity from the things they don't even know about." Dorian raised his glass in remembrance before downing the last of it.
The grim things that they had all seen. Dorian didn't know what man the stranger spoke of, but the scientist in the tunnels - there could be more, but doubtful. "I shot him three times in the head. At least as long as there are not more scientists lurking in the tunnels. He was one of them - bitten by those things that got my friend. He didn't have one arm when you met him."
Dorian laughed, "No he was curled up in a ball on the alleyway pavement with a ring of debris around him as he protected himself from his own brethren." The Atharim had cornered Nox, he'd protected himself. Nearly cooked himself alive.
And he still fights - knowing they'll hunt him till he's dead. And he's not even angry. That pisses Dorian off more than anything else, "The boy gets attacked and still does his job. I asked him to find the body of the man who was not there when my officers went to retrieve the evidence. He waltzed into the tunnels with both arms. Confronted another man sentenced to the same death, and found our scientist walking among the monsters. Three bullet holes in his head, vacant eyes. Dead but walking."
Dorian shuttered at the thought of seeing such a thing. Only in movies, had he ever seen such things, and Nox jumped in the middle and saved Officer Lih's life. Forfeiting his own - and for what? That's what the drink is for. Glad I'm not him. Glad it wasn't me who faced those things. I'll bring whoever I need to to justice, would hid whatever they asked of me. But I'm mortally grateful I do not face those dangers. A drink for the lives lost protecting humanity from the things they don't even know about." Dorian raised his glass in remembrance before downing the last of it.