There are still environmental cancers - difficult to avoid skin cancer on a world with two suns when most people can't afford the good filters - but they can be removed.
Lucky you. I had to search for a cure and wound up tortured and given super powers instead. But that didn't actually get rid of the cancer. Just meant it couldn't ever kill me.
[He glances down at the power dampening collar on his ankle.] Unless some dickhead takes those powers away from me of course.
There are other disadvantages to the world I'm from. We can cure cancer, but we can also invent other biological weapons.
[ That's definitely not what Rhys is here for, though. ]
Those in charge here are shits.
[ Even the milder form of the insult feels weird in his mouth, probably comes out sounding odd too. Rhys is too used to being polite. ]
What are your powers?
[ He's almost done, but it seems good to try to keep Wade distracted from the strange sensation. It's not exactly painful, but a little like an itching under the skin. ]
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So does where you're from not have cancer at all? Damn. [That would have saved Wade a lot of trouble. And heartache. And torture.]
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[ Feels it, too, with the work Rhys is doing. ]
There are still environmental cancers - difficult to avoid skin cancer on a world with two suns when most people can't afford the good filters - but they can be removed.
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[He glances down at the power dampening collar on his ankle.] Unless some dickhead takes those powers away from me of course.
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[ That's definitely not what Rhys is here for, though. ]
Those in charge here are shits.
[ Even the milder form of the insult feels weird in his mouth, probably comes out sounding odd too. Rhys is too used to being polite. ]
What are your powers?
[ He's almost done, but it seems good to try to keep Wade distracted from the strange sensation. It's not exactly painful, but a little like an itching under the skin. ]