[Irritation is met with some mild exasperation, but it wasn't like Murphy could make him sleep, and he could understand the desire not to. He still doesn't think it's a good idea to keep talking to Bellamy while he's like this, enough that he's emanating scepticism even for him offering a memory.
It doesn't last long. Gives way swiftly to alarm, revulsion at the guard's blackened skin, the wave of sickness that doubled back. And then, probably quicker than most might expect, grim acceptance.]
(It's the bug, isn't it.)
[Bellamy hadn't been able to do that on the ground. Murphy would've known, because everyone else would've known, too. Which meant it was one more facet of this screwed up alien shit they were knee-deep in now. There's a burst of bitter frustration and regret that it hadn't worked, getting the symbiotes cut out.]
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It doesn't last long. Gives way swiftly to alarm, revulsion at the guard's blackened skin, the wave of sickness that doubled back. And then, probably quicker than most might expect, grim acceptance.]
( It's the bug, isn't it. )
[Bellamy hadn't been able to do that on the ground. Murphy would've known, because everyone else would've known, too. Which meant it was one more facet of this screwed up alien shit they were knee-deep in now. There's a burst of bitter frustration and regret that it hadn't worked, getting the symbiotes cut out.]
( Can we all do that, or did you just get lucky? )