章節 167: Chapter 167

"The other reason we can't sit on Seth and shave his head, turning him into a comatose idiot until it grows back, is because he's an excellent ally, and we don't kill our allies."

"No matter how annoying?" she groused.

"Even if he's insufferable."

"Feeling the love over here," was Seth's dry reply. "You should be nicer to me, Avion. I'm the one with the morphine that will turn that frown upside down."

Drugs for the pain, which, while held somewhat at bay by his interaction with his vixen, still throbbed at the periphery of his senses.

The feathery touch of her hand trailed across his brow.

"Why do you insist on lying here?" Her tone seemed genuinely puzzled. My bio sensors say you are not repairing the damage to your tissues.

Could she not feel his lack, the dead bots floating like flotsam in his vessels? "I am dying."