[He repeats it with less firmness than before, attention wandering further. What were they talking about again?]
...sample. I was...
[Whenever Anders finds him, he'll be marginally less coherent than before. He'll have taken that long to reach for a proper syringe and gather a petrie dish, but the pain spiked in tandem. He's slumped in the same chair he'd been, arms heavy at his sides. He's humming faintly, as if that might drive off the ache.]
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[He repeats it with less firmness than before, attention wandering further. What were they talking about again?]
...sample. I was...
[Whenever Anders finds him, he'll be marginally less coherent than before. He'll have taken that long to reach for a proper syringe and gather a petrie dish, but the pain spiked in tandem. He's slumped in the same chair he'd been, arms heavy at his sides. He's humming faintly, as if that might drive off the ache.]