You don't have the technology to replicate text quickly. That sounds difficult. Your books must be rare and expensive.
[which also, to her mind, means he's probably a bigger deal than she'd assumed when she expected printing presses or woodcuts. Whichever came first. She is not at all sure.]
That's very poetic. No, humans - cured humans - don't experience pain. I have something like a dull pressure or tightness. Sometimes, like when an organ ruptures, I also feel my heartbeat throbbing around the area, but it's not exactly precise. My uniform was designed to log damage and inform me or I wouldn't know most of the time. It doesn't feel very important.
It's a tradeoff. As far as I've heard pain exists to tell you not to do something. I've known people who walked into fire or with broken legs and hurt themselves further or died. It's part of why we're so feared as fighters, though.
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[which also, to her mind, means he's probably a bigger deal than she'd assumed when she expected printing presses or woodcuts. Whichever came first. She is not at all sure.]
That's very poetic. No, humans - cured humans - don't experience pain. I have something like a dull pressure or tightness. Sometimes, like when an organ ruptures, I also feel my heartbeat throbbing around the area, but it's not exactly precise. My uniform was designed to log damage and inform me or I wouldn't know most of the time. It doesn't feel very important.
It's a tradeoff. As far as I've heard pain exists to tell you not to do something. I've known people who walked into fire or with broken legs and hurt themselves further or died. It's part of why we're so feared as fighters, though.