[Equius doesn't wake up screaming. It would be an appropriate response to the surgery he just went through, and the pain he was currently feeling, but such a thing is impossible.]
[You see, he was never asleep.]
[The terror of watching his body being taken apart piece by piece? He didn't really feel it. He'd spent the whole surgery watching, paralyzed with morbid fascination, as alien organ after organ was pulled from his body cavity, only to be replaced by far more familiar ones.]
[The pain? But a hazy memory now. Ever since thick, indigo blood had been pumped into his body, everything was hazy. Everything was miracles. And now that the paralytic drug had worn off, he could reach up and feel the goat horns that had been grafted to his head]
[Mother]
[fucking]
[yes]
I...
Am the highblood, now...
[With a wide, manic grin, Equius rolls onto his side and curls up into a little ball, giggling away]
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[You see, he was never asleep.]
[The terror of watching his body being taken apart piece by piece? He didn't really feel it. He'd spent the whole surgery watching, paralyzed with morbid fascination, as alien organ after organ was pulled from his body cavity, only to be replaced by far more familiar ones.]
[The pain? But a hazy memory now. Ever since thick, indigo blood had been pumped into his body, everything was hazy. Everything was miracles. And now that the paralytic drug had worn off, he could reach up and feel the goat horns that had been grafted to his head]
[Mother]
[fucking]
[yes]
I...
Am the highblood, now...
[With a wide, manic grin, Equius rolls onto his side and curls up into a little ball, giggling away]