[... And that's when everything else just sort of fades away. The lighthearted conversation they were having. Angel bringing up one of the ideas that had been on Athena's mind. All of that just blanks out with those few little words.
She thinks back to Elpis. She thinks about Zarpedon, and the corrupted, mutated soldiers of the Lost Legion, exposed to too much eridium and the bizarre technology (magic???) of the Vault. Those beings already touched by the Eridians who were able to mutate even further with just the right push...]
... He didn't just hurt you. He used you as a tool. A battery.
[Athena stands up, very suddenly. Her ears are ringing, so loud she can barely hear her own voice, and that white-hot burning is starting to flood her veins again. It was like confronting Cassius, like when she'd seen what Jack did to Tim...
Shit. Shit. She needs to get out. Angel will barely have time to notice how Athena glances at the door before she's up on her feet in an instant, practically charging out of the ice cream shop...]
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She thinks back to Elpis. She thinks about Zarpedon, and the corrupted, mutated soldiers of the Lost Legion, exposed to too much eridium and the bizarre technology (magic???) of the Vault. Those beings already touched by the Eridians who were able to mutate even further with just the right push...]
... He didn't just hurt you. He used you as a tool. A battery.
[Athena stands up, very suddenly. Her ears are ringing, so loud she can barely hear her own voice, and that white-hot burning is starting to flood her veins again. It was like confronting Cassius, like when she'd seen what Jack did to Tim...
Shit. Shit. She needs to get out. Angel will barely have time to notice how Athena glances at the door before she's up on her feet in an instant, practically charging out of the ice cream shop...]