[Aramis isn't a scientist, and so they are not very privy to some of the information she wants. But she's working on that angle as well.]
Anger. [But that doesn't quite encapsulate it--] Intense anger. Violence. Problematic for the Displaced, given some of the alterations we've all experienced.
[He looks both more interested and more perturbed, standing across from her with his hands laid flat on the wood of the bar.]
I could kill a man as soon as look at him, if someone made me angry like that here. Wouldn’t need a sword to do it.
[That may be a slight exaggeration, but there are times here when he’s much stronger than he should be, and if he were to become reckless then, it would be easy for him to do serious harm to another person, whether or not they were the sort that needed to be harmed.]
Some of us, you, were taken, back before we opened the gates. If someone made us sick like that —
[He shakes his head, a little disgusted at the implications. The Displaced could be used to someone else’s ends, or they could be made to look like a threat that they might not otherwise represent.]
You. [She pauses deliberately.] Some whom were in New Rio, perhaps.
[She hadn't spoken to anyone very explicitly about the connection she had drawn, not because she was intent on keeping it a secret, but at the time it had been stressful to confront. A part of her regrets it now.]
The knowledge will become common before too long. I intend to share it with the research facilities, and use it to find my way among their number.
[And thus comes the answer to Jon's original question.]
no subject
[Aramis isn't a scientist, and so they are not very privy to some of the information she wants. But she's working on that angle as well.]
Anger. [But that doesn't quite encapsulate it--] Intense anger. Violence. Problematic for the Displaced, given some of the alterations we've all experienced.
no subject
I could kill a man as soon as look at him, if someone made me angry like that here. Wouldn’t need a sword to do it.
[That may be a slight exaggeration, but there are times here when he’s much stronger than he should be, and if he were to become reckless then, it would be easy for him to do serious harm to another person, whether or not they were the sort that needed to be harmed.]
Some of us, you, were taken, back before we opened the gates. If someone made us sick like that —
[He shakes his head, a little disgusted at the implications. The Displaced could be used to someone else’s ends, or they could be made to look like a threat that they might not otherwise represent.]
How many people know this?
no subject
[She hadn't spoken to anyone very explicitly about the connection she had drawn, not because she was intent on keeping it a secret, but at the time it had been stressful to confront. A part of her regrets it now.]
The knowledge will become common before too long. I intend to share it with the research facilities, and use it to find my way among their number.
[And thus comes the answer to Jon's original question.]