[ Midnight studies Miss Gebura for another hot minute... then lets out a small breath, breaking eye contact to shake his head. ]
What I called poison is something called Originium. Originium is a mineral... Highly unstable, needs a lot of processing for it to become safe enough to use as a power source. It's used for engines where I'm from, and circuits made of Originium are manufactured for Casters and other such practitioners to create Arts. Magic, you might call it.
But those are the safe use cases. The reality is that exposure to unstable Originium is always possible, even if one doesn't live in a hotzone. It's not only in everyday engines, you see; when it destabilizes, it turns to dust and goes airborne, and it can travel for kilometers before dissipating into the atmosphere... You can have trace particles in your bloodstream for an entire lifetime and never develop the illness. Oripathy.
[ ... He shrugs again. ]
It was in my food for at least a week before the infection took. Once one is Infected, there's no going back. There's no cure.
[ He has details about how it's affecting him too, if she'll let him continue. As with all patients living with a terminal illness, he became an expert on his own condition rather quickly. ]
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What I called poison is something called Originium. Originium is a mineral... Highly unstable, needs a lot of processing for it to become safe enough to use as a power source. It's used for engines where I'm from, and circuits made of Originium are manufactured for Casters and other such practitioners to create Arts. Magic, you might call it.
But those are the safe use cases. The reality is that exposure to unstable Originium is always possible, even if one doesn't live in a hotzone. It's not only in everyday engines, you see; when it destabilizes, it turns to dust and goes airborne, and it can travel for kilometers before dissipating into the atmosphere... You can have trace particles in your bloodstream for an entire lifetime and never develop the illness. Oripathy.
[ ... He shrugs again. ]
It was in my food for at least a week before the infection took. Once one is Infected, there's no going back. There's no cure.
[ He has details about how it's affecting him too, if she'll let him continue. As with all patients living with a terminal illness, he became an expert on his own condition rather quickly. ]