[ If Viktor has ever worked with a cadaver, Kiriona's body is much like that: cold, slack, lifeless. The primary difference is that she takes more power to cut through, as if her very body has been somehow reinforced. It provides an incredible tactical advantage. It's also gross as hell.

Kiriona smiles faintly, and she doesn't look at Viktor so much as she looks through him. ]

Revenge. I'm gonna hurt the people who hurt me. It's just -- I have to keep working on it. That's all.

Thing is, it happened exactly as I expected. I've got a big important dad, all the prizes I could ever want, and I don't even have to talk to Harrow anymore. Maybe it's like -- I dunno, you're a science guy. When you're so good at experiments that you run out of experiments?

[ totally. ]