[Liquefied. That's terrifying and yet oddly relevant, given what happened with Lotte.]
The erosion is usually marked with mental effects at first. It starts off by hearing or seeing things that - [Pause. How to word this.] - I would say "not there", but they are, just not in the right universe. The physical breakdown is gradual at first, but speeds up significantly as the mental erosion advances. The physical breakdown starts internally, but it does work its way outward. A colleague of mine lost his entire body to it.
[There's a longer pause before she adds this on, because she's sure it might help him see the parallels as well:] All that's left of him is a black sludge. His mind is still in there somewhere, but it's horribly fragmented.
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The erosion is usually marked with mental effects at first. It starts off by hearing or seeing things that - [Pause. How to word this.] - I would say "not there", but they are, just not in the right universe. The physical breakdown is gradual at first, but speeds up significantly as the mental erosion advances. The physical breakdown starts internally, but it does work its way outward. A colleague of mine lost his entire body to it.
[There's a longer pause before she adds this on, because she's sure it might help him see the parallels as well:] All that's left of him is a black sludge. His mind is still in there somewhere, but it's horribly fragmented.