And We Danced (Masquerade Overflow!)

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[grandstanding]

[He's revolted. It only shows in a narrowing of his eyes. After a moment, he manages to speak in a calm voice.]

Dysthrophy?

[pain_train]

A plague. Everyone thinks it was a bioweapon used in the war, but no one knows who did it. If you get infected, you go crazy and grow like extra arms and shit and try to eat people.

Killed all of the cities on my planet except mine, in the end. That's why we had to build the dome. Well, that and because the chemical warfare fucked the terraforming to hell. That's what the Line was. The army held the Line around the city while the dome was built.

[grandstanding]

[He takes that all in silence. Eventually, he ventures this:]

I'm beginning to see why you find the Fleet preferable. [If it were him, he'd still want to return. Set things to right. Smash obstacles in the way of that.]

[pain_train]

Yeah, I wish my friends were here with me. So they'd be safer too.

And I feel bad about it. But like... I was fucking useless, back home. Since I broke my back and got turfed out of the army. Dead weight.