[It comes out more frustrated than defeated. His shoulders slump.]
There's no way to get at her and that's all that's keepin' her alive at this point because if I could get at her, Marco, I'd have already built somethin' to burn her and everythin' she's ever touched to dust and marched it right up to her doorstep.
[His hands clench into fists against Marco's back. This is the first time he's admitted to this, but it's nothing new. Even before Wendy told him about the robots he would one day build, he was designing similar things in his notebooks here to medicate himself through the crippling helplessness of his situation. He'd like to think he'd never actually raze Kulen to the ground just because that's where he acquired the parasite that's now wreaking havoc on his body. It was still therapeutic to design a robot that could do it.]
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[It comes out more frustrated than defeated. His shoulders slump.]
There's no way to get at her and that's all that's keepin' her alive at this point because if I could get at her, Marco, I'd have already built somethin' to burn her and everythin' she's ever touched to dust and marched it right up to her doorstep.
[His hands clench into fists against Marco's back. This is the first time he's admitted to this, but it's nothing new. Even before Wendy told him about the robots he would one day build, he was designing similar things in his notebooks here to medicate himself through the crippling helplessness of his situation. He'd like to think he'd never actually raze Kulen to the ground just because that's where he acquired the parasite that's now wreaking havoc on his body. It was still therapeutic to design a robot that could do it.]