[Please don’t cut into your own bones, Jason. There’s risk involved in obtaining crucial information about what happened to them — Markus understands that. He knows that sometimes doing bold, dangerous things is simply the requirement for unraveling certain mysteries, or inciting certain modes of change. But there’s a line drawn into the ground that, if one crosses, tosses them into “reckless” territory.
Markus doesn’t want to the consequence of that happen to Jason. To anyone he knows.
The removal of the broken stitches isn’t something the man has to sit through for very long, at least. They slip through skin with relative ease after the initial tug, and soon after Markus is applying that telltale, cool sting of antiseptic, simultaneously mopping up any excess bleeding with an extra cloth.]
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[Please don’t cut into your own bones, Jason. There’s risk involved in obtaining crucial information about what happened to them — Markus understands that. He knows that sometimes doing bold, dangerous things is simply the requirement for unraveling certain mysteries, or inciting certain modes of change. But there’s a line drawn into the ground that, if one crosses, tosses them into “reckless” territory.
Markus doesn’t want to the consequence of that happen to Jason. To anyone he knows.
The removal of the broken stitches isn’t something the man has to sit through for very long, at least. They slip through skin with relative ease after the initial tug, and soon after Markus is applying that telltale, cool sting of antiseptic, simultaneously mopping up any excess bleeding with an extra cloth.]
So if it’s not hardware, then what? Any theories?