[There is a pause, and when he does continue on to answer he just sounds… tired. There’s worry there too that he mostly tries to bury, but it’s a lot harder of an ask when Communing with another Exalt.]

He… injected me with something. I don’t know what.

[He can still see the sickly green glow of it plain as day in his mind’s eye, even if the immediate aftermath of it is mostly a painful and exhausting blur. For all he knows, he’s got a ticking time bomb inside of him.]

Said it was to try to draw something out of me. Felt like my whole damn body was on fire.