[Once, many months ago now, she'd insisted very sternly on being included in the autopsy of her own limb once it was separated from her. She'd studied it with the same scientifically motivated rigor she does Mister Gecko's arm now—which is to say, by unfocusing her eyes and looking lightly past everything to some slightly less mortifying point in the middle distance.
Maybe if Richie doesn't keel over dead in the next forty-eight hours, or sprout a whole arm full of rolling eyeballs, or disappear as Rifters are wont to do, Wysteria will find herself considerably more ready to acknowledge the grotesque side effects of her (their) experiment more directly without the specter of guilt hanging so thickly over her. For now, Mister Dickerson may take his measurements and begin to wrap the limb without much in the way of interruption.
Or, it must be noted, assistance.
She does manage to scrape together a few further questions however. Maker forbid Wysteria de Foncé ever keep her mouth shut for long.]
And the period during which you possessed the lyrium. You mentioned seeing something when you first— [Came to? Reverted out of a trance? Both sound potentially ominous, so she skips straight to:] Do you recall it now?
even more eye stuff
Maybe if Richie doesn't keel over dead in the next forty-eight hours, or sprout a whole arm full of rolling eyeballs, or disappear as Rifters are wont to do, Wysteria will find herself considerably more ready to acknowledge the grotesque side effects of her (their) experiment more directly without the specter of guilt hanging so thickly over her. For now, Mister Dickerson may take his measurements and begin to wrap the limb without much in the way of interruption.
Or, it must be noted, assistance.
She does manage to scrape together a few further questions however. Maker forbid Wysteria de Foncé ever keep her mouth shut for long.]
And the period during which you possessed the lyrium. You mentioned seeing something when you first— [Came to? Reverted out of a trance? Both sound potentially ominous, so she skips straight to:] Do you recall it now?