<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=39818.msg2032464#msg2032464">Quote from: MzNurse on 10-07-2009, 02:00:39</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Maybe if you laid off the little pick-me-ups there, you'd be able to get some rest she told him quietly as she picked up the laptop and headed for the corner he indicated. She tucked one leg under her and tucked the other knee up under her chin. The robe fell away from this leg, showing him an expanse of smooth ebony skin all the way up to her butt. <br/><br/>She logged onto the internet and maneuvered her way around and into her study site. It didn't surprise her to find three assignments waiting for her, along with a new book list. She opened the first assignment and got busy.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Septerra just watches her. "Trust me when I say its not that at all. If you did my job youd not sleep either. He turns his chair around so he faces out the window that looks out over the rest of the underground part of the Arcology. All you can see is his arms on the chair and the back of his head. I have killed over three hundred people in this war. I wish i could say they were all horrible monsters like the one that attacked you, but I can't. Some were guards that got in my way, soldiers just doing their jobs. Others... Others were innocents... Men, women, children. I'm a monster, make no mistake of that. I became a monster when I bonded with the dark creature that saved you. I use that bond to help who I can, but I'm waging my own war against myself, a war for my own sanity and to make sure the creature I'm bonded with dosen't take over. One day that war will end and I will lose one way or another. Either I will die in a fight or...." He pulls out one of the large hand guns he carries and reaching back sets it on the desk behind him. Then he falls silent again staring out the window. The meaning is all to clear what his other option will be on that final day.