what_fourth_wall: (Srs face)
what_fourth_wall ([personal profile] what_fourth_wall) wrote in [community profile] polylogs 2021-09-05 06:05 pm (UTC)

"You a mutant?"

There's no judgment in his voice. After all, he's on the precipice of calling a number on a card of a guy who promised to cure him of his cancer using experimental mutant DNA. As a mercenary, he'd worked with some mutants...and also been hired to go after a few. They were just people like anybody else.

"Yeah," he sits. "It's funny. You manage not to get killed in so many other ways you were just begging to get killed, and then the big C jumps up and stabs you in the lungs. And the pancreas. And the liver. And the lymph nodes."

He huffs a laugh. I'm Wade. But I guess not for long."

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