"All things being equal, I'd rather not find out firsthand," Miles mutters.
He eyes the card. Sure, she's told him about it, and he's seen Vee fight, but he's still skeptical. "Okay. I'll...I'll try. But don't hold back."
He closes his eyes, exhales, flexes his fingers, and...lets go.
It hurts; he grits his teeth, trying not to make a sound. It's the same pins-and-needles feeling from before, pins-and-needles times a hundred, times a thousand. But the Walrider starts to rise up out of him like smoke, the nanites surrounding him in a dark cloud, looking like gnats. He's shaking; he feels like he's dissociating, his head is in two places at once. He's both the Miles in his body and the Miles who's the slowly-growing cloud of nanites, and it's making him dizzy.
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He eyes the card. Sure, she's told him about it, and he's seen Vee fight, but he's still skeptical. "Okay. I'll...I'll try. But don't hold back."
He closes his eyes, exhales, flexes his fingers, and...lets go.
It hurts; he grits his teeth, trying not to make a sound. It's the same pins-and-needles feeling from before, pins-and-needles times a hundred, times a thousand. But the Walrider starts to rise up out of him like smoke, the nanites surrounding him in a dark cloud, looking like gnats. He's shaking; he feels like he's dissociating, his head is in two places at once. He's both the Miles in his body and the Miles who's the slowly-growing cloud of nanites, and it's making him dizzy.