Tony has a wife and a child. A quiet life in a quiet place. Something as close to retirement as any of them can get - as Tony can get, with the likelihood of death in action looming on the horizon. It isn't fair that he's here. And Stephen doesn't want to be having this conversation.
"You need to feed it at least once a month. More, to be realistic. Life here makes it difficult to maintain any kind of equilibrium. Fear, resentment, anger, stress, it's all going to contribute in the wrong direction."
A brief closing of his eyes, thumb and middle finger brought up to press briefly into the corners of his eyes. Actionable steps are next. Actionable steps.
"There's a fight club run by one of us operating in town. And a brothel staffed by a mixture of local workers and Void-Touched. Outside of that, everyone's generally pretty eager not to let anyone else turn into anything that might eat them. So there are options."
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"You need to feed it at least once a month. More, to be realistic. Life here makes it difficult to maintain any kind of equilibrium. Fear, resentment, anger, stress, it's all going to contribute in the wrong direction."
A brief closing of his eyes, thumb and middle finger brought up to press briefly into the corners of his eyes. Actionable steps are next. Actionable steps.
"There's a fight club run by one of us operating in town. And a brothel staffed by a mixture of local workers and Void-Touched. Outside of that, everyone's generally pretty eager not to let anyone else turn into anything that might eat them. So there are options."