PATIENT ZERO -The lone survivor
"The Scribe interface will act as the software governor. I just need the hardware. If I have a continuous, localized supply of refined Aether pumping into my system, my body won't have to burn its own biomass to maintain the Abyssal Density. I won't have to sweat a displacement field to walk. I'll be permanently stabilized."
Nero looked at the massive, two-ton boy from the Gutters. She looked at the dead Trench-Goliaths on the shoreline. She realized that the only way the deep-dwellers were going to survive the coming chaos of the broken Spire was if this Leviathan had his teeth fully sharpened.
"It’s going to hurt," Nero clicked, a terrifying, surgical precision entering her gaze. "I have t