voice; a totally normal and not suspicious request

[fervidclaret]

So!!!

I know some of you are not human, and even the humans have extraordinary abilities! Ands so... I was wondering. If maybe someone's has some limbs they are willing to part with? Living, organic, non-native ones!

You see, I'm a doctor in the home dimension I came from, and work to develop pharmaceutical drugs! I'd love to do a little bit of science on imPorts to see if there is any non-nanomachine-based way to perhaps improve native abilities to heal.

[This is definitely not a thinly-veiled attempt to get his hands on non-human meat to see how it tastes and if he can even consume it.]

Doesn't need to be a limb, really. Any body part, preferably one you can easily replace.

Comments

[nightmarist]

You're not getting my blood.

[aberrant_type]

I'll swap you.

[nightmarist]

Thanks but I'm vegetarian.

[aberrant_type]

I'll take it, then, that you have no idea what secrets your blood might or might not hold. You don't even dare look, apparently. Even finding out you were indistinguishable from a baseline human would be meaningful, you know?

[nightmarist]

How so?

[aberrant_type]

Well, if you were identical to your garden-variety human, I wouldn't declare you a new species, for instance. You'd simply be a human with some incredible and understudied abilities.

[nightmarist]

Something tells me you care a lot more about my category than I do.

[aberrant_type]

That's not the only information I care about, but I value all of it.

[nightmarist]

I'm touched and honored to be so valued.

[No, that's sarcasm.]

Should I point out once again that I'm a possession and you need my owner's permission to carve off any part of me, anyway?

[aberrant_type]

[ignoring the first point-] Eugh. You should work on that.

[nightmarist]

On what?

[aberrant_type]

Were you enslaved as a child?

[it'd be not that implausible, in her world, hey.]

[nightmarist]

[That gets a genuine laugh out of him.]

[aberrant_type]

You seem amused, but it's been known to happen where I'm from.

[nightmarist]

Same, but. No. For fuck's sake. A magician made a bargain about a year ago.

[aberrant_type]

... Oh.

[adjusting...]

And you agreed to this?

[nightmarist]

Are you thinking about negotiating? Don't waste your time.

[aberrant_type]

No, I have no interest in owning others. Did you agree to it?

[nightmarist]

It's complicated.

[aberrant_type]

I'll take that as a no.

[man, she already found Adam off-putting.]

[nightmarist]

You should take it as: It's complicated.

[aberrant_type]

And yet I'm taking it as a no.

[nightmarist]

Wrong.

[aberrant_type]

Either you agreed or you didn't. If there are somehow extenuating circumstances, feel free to explain. [And she's betting he won't B( based on past evidence and all.]

[nightmarist]

I don't have to explain anything. You're just wrong.