[ heine's fingertips lift to touch the edge of the metal, hidden as usual under a layer of bandages encircling his throat. ]
I don't know about removal. I guess that might do it, if it was torn out. [ but it's so tightly embedded in his spinal column, the delicate wiring of it braided into his peripheral nervous system. it would take quite some doing to tear it out of his neck.
as for damage— ]
When I escaped from the lab, the first thing I did was try to kill myself. [ heine says this without emotion, and he's looking at alhaitham, but not really at alhaitham. ] I threw myself off the tower in the middle of our city. The human body is mostly water. When I hit the ground I was unrecognizable.
Or so the Bishop tells me. [ his gaze adjusts, focusing. ] The collar put me back together. It took a long time. If that didn't do it, I don't know what could.
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I don't know about removal. I guess that might do it, if it was torn out. [ but it's so tightly embedded in his spinal column, the delicate wiring of it braided into his peripheral nervous system. it would take quite some doing to tear it out of his neck.
as for damage— ]
When I escaped from the lab, the first thing I did was try to kill myself. [ heine says this without emotion, and he's looking at alhaitham, but not really at alhaitham. ] I threw myself off the tower in the middle of our city. The human body is mostly water. When I hit the ground I was unrecognizable.
Or so the Bishop tells me. [ his gaze adjusts, focusing. ] The collar put me back together. It took a long time. If that didn't do it, I don't know what could.