Poisoned Rationality Novels & Stories

Brandon's parents, on the other hand, stopped trying to discipline him altogether and chose to leave him to his own devices. Brandon was starving every time he came by my place during those few days. He had planned to scrounge a meal off Vivian, but he didn't expect that she'd just kick him out on the spot. Having lost everything, Brandon went down an extreme path and stabbed Vivian to death with a knife while she was home alone. Vivian, ironically, had brewed a cup of tea for Brandon that day, and according to the police investigation, that cup of tea was poisoned. I merely smiled when Mom told me all of this, thinking that they had only gotten what they deserved.

I have treated many patients but I have never felt like this in my experience till now. This is beyond belief. Flabbergasting. Fatuous. And absurd. Fuck! What the hell is happening with me? Why am I thinking about my patient again and again? I shake my head, pulling myself out of half-witted thoughts. Of course, thinking about a psycho murderer is what half-witted mind people do.

The part that looks infected? Yes. That’s exactly what it is. A poisoning. It breaks the limits on the rune and pushes power into the person. Normally, the person will hit a wall. The wall being that their physical body can’t go any faster or it hurt them, it will break down their bodies. Like poison. So you’re saying that because they removed the safety features of the rune, that Rick is being slowly poisoned. I’m saying it’s not only his daughter that’s going to die. I stared down at the rune.

When silence came back to him as a reply, he continued taunting, "This woman is your ally or minion, right? Let's be direct to the point. I'm sorry but the poison I injected her is not from me. She'll die in a minute if you don't come out. Just wanna say, not even I know what weird decoction it was. Or maybe, not even the person who mixed it knew. How about you come out to heal her? She's too low-level to cure herself, no?" With a single swept of his gaze to the shocked woman, he arrived to this conclusion. A poisoned system user wouldn't bat an eyelash if the level of toxin could be solved by his or her AI. "W-wait? I'm poisoned, and I can't be cured? I'll be dying within a minute? No no no

He looked at her with pure, unadulterated disgust. "She’s a corpse," Dante spat, his grip on me tightening until it was painful. "She has no resistance. There’s no pleasure in owning something that doesn't know how to fight back." Julian stepped back, his silver eyes flashing with a new, dangerous calculation. "You’re making a mistake, Dante. The 'poison' in her blood is reaching critical mass. She’s going to trigger a neural collapse that will take the whole city with her. The replacement was your only chance at a stable reign."

The doctor rushed in, saw the blood under me, and clicked his tongue. "What goes around comes around. "You always tried to hurt Ms. Jonathon. In the end, you killed your own child." He told the nurses to lift me onto a stretcher. "You can't keep the baby. And since we're low on anesthesia today, I'm sure a heartless woman like you won't mind the pain." They strapped me to the table, gagged me, and took my baby away while I was still awake.

He wanted to argue, but Ronan’s words clung to him like chains he couldn’t break. Finally, he muttered through gritted teeth, ‘Then don’t blame me if I slipped. She looks too much like Lilith.’ For the first time, Ronan’s smirk faltered. The wolf’s golden eyes dimmed, his form flickering in their shared mind. ‘You’re lying to yourself,’ he murmured. ‘Lilith never made you burn like that. And you know it.’ ‘Then it must be because you marked her.’ Callister pushed, his voice in their mind sharp, accusing, almost desperate for an excuse to cling to.

Alpha Akin then proceeds to give a speech on why the poisoning is better. "Poisoning is more intimate; more psychologically draining. It will definitely cause more suffering to the Alpha of the pack. It will also greatly weaken Scarlett's defenses because she will be wondering who actually had the guts and the opportunity to poison her cousins. It also takes attention away from us and anyone else, so that they are easy prey to be attacked, pillaged and destroyed.