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Battle of the Lord's Manor
- Blitz
Clear!
- Ash
Okay, you're on guard duty!
- Ash
Alexsandr, see if any of the mercs on the ground are alive!
- Tachanka
On it.
- Ash
Tina, get your bandages. Take a headcount and patch up the wounded.
- Frost
Roger!
- Tachanka
No playing dead!!
- Mercenary
Wait, please... lower your gun! I'll tell you anything!
- Tachanka
Kötz, tie him up.
- Blitz
Sure.
- Ash
Where's the doctor? Dr. Miarow!
- Schwarz
Over here!
- Miarow
...*cough*...
The Infected boy lays on the ground, blood oozing out of his many wounds with each cough. His exposed skin is covered with fine Originium crystals, a direct result of facing down the Originium explosion at such close range.
No shockwaves, no intense gust of crushing wind. But the Originium curse has grown stronger from the stimulation, and penetrated deeper into his body.
- Ash
Tina! Bandages! Hurry!
- Tachanka
Stay with me! Don't close your eyes, boy!
- Ash
Why... what happened?
- Liskarm
When you push yourself to use Originium Arts... it worsens your Originium infection...
- Ash
Rhodes Island doesn't have a countermeasure? Isn't this what you people do?
- Liskarm
Between the blood loss, burns, and acute Oripathy symptoms, even if we were back on the landship...
- Miarow
...*cough*...
- Tachanka
I said stay with me, kid.
- Miarow
......
- Tachanka
...You can do this. Remember how you wanted to travel the world? Picture that Columbia you were dreaming about.
- Tachanka
...Stay with me!
- Miarow
*cough* *cough*...
- Miarow
...*cough*...
- Tachanka
......
- Ash
...Doctor...
- Frost
...He's gone.
- Schwarz
...I'm sorry. I couldn't...
- Ash
No... it's not your fault.
- Tachanka
......
- Mercenary
...No... I had nothing to do with that. It wasn't me!
- Tachanka
(Russian profanity), I'm going to twist your *profanity* head off.
- Mercenary
I just...don't...
- Tachanka
You're done for, (Russian profanity). You're toasted.
- Mercenary
No! Don't hurt me! It wasn't me! No!
- Blitz
Alexsandr! Stop! Calm down!
- Liskarm
Where did that guard captain go? The Lord's daughter?
- Schwarz
She chased someone trying to get away. Rangers went with her, don't worry.
- Liskarm
Wait... the crystals on the doctor's skin... are glowing?
- Franka
Huh?!
- Franka
So soon? How?
- Schwarz
! !
- Liskarm
We've got bigger problems! Find an empty room here!
- Ash
What are you doing?
- Franka
No time to explain! Move!
- Liskarm
We need cloth! Curtains, bedspreads, anything!
- Schwarz
Get the doctor into that little house! Hurry!
- Tachanka
What's happening?
- Ash
What's wrong with the doctor? Why...?
- Liskarm
M-Miss Cohen, please calm down. Franka's dealing with the doctor's—
- Ash
Dealing?
- Ash
Dealing with what?
- Liskarm
You've never seen it before? I'll explain it to you later—
- Franka
Cover the doors and all the windows! No cracks!
- Schwarz
The chimney! Block it! And the vents!
- Tachanka
......
- Ash
What... are they doing?
- Blitz
I'm not sure? What's wrong with... the doctor's corpse?
- Tachanka
Don't look.
- Ash
Why?
- Tachanka
Don't look...
- Schwarz
We're good here!
- Franka
Doors and windows good! Ready.
- Ash
Hey, is that room lighting up? The window's glowing?
- Liskarm
Miss Cohen! Get back!
- Liskarm
Don't watch...
- Ash
What on earth is going on?
- Ash
The doctor...
- Ash
......
- Ash
......
- Ash
Oh...
In the dark of the house, glittering dust crumbles from the departed's wounds and spreads throughout the enclosed space. Before long, rays of light pierce the darkness.
Brilliant, dazzling, prismatic light. Originium dust floats in the air among the lights, then slowly settles.
An Infected returns to the earth that birthed him.
