Editing Tender Mercy

{{Character_Infobox_(Basic)|species=[[Tender Mercies]]|affiliation=[[Crown Empire]]|first_appearance=[[Head over Heels 16.3]]}}Experiments immune to [[Ravage|the disease]].<ref>https://twigserial.wordpress.com/2017/01/03/head-over-heels-16-4/</ref>

Receive [[Combat Drug|combat drugs]] that make them Hungry.<ref>“They give us drugs,” she said.

“I know all about the drugs,” I replied.

“The drugs make us… eager.  Angry.  Hungry.  I want to eat you as much as I’ve ever wanted anything.” - [https://twigserial.wordpress.com/2017/01/28/head-over-heels-16-12/ Excerpt] from [[Head over Heels 16.12]]</ref>

They love skin.<ref>“You have better, safer chances of a meal if you run off to that battlefield over there and go looking for the dead, or ask politely for your dinner.  You know they’ll have something prepared.”

“When I shuck off my skin, I get a release.  There’s pain, but there’s a rush…”

“Sure,” I said.

“Satisfaction, as sure as anything.”

“I believe it,” I said.  I barely knew what I was saying.  I was only speaking because I worried that if I didn’t keep this up as an interplay, me and her, she would monologue and convince herself to attack.

“When I go after someone else, when I hurt other people, I get a rush like that.  The drugs make me so restless.  Maybe if I take your skin off, with my teeth and my fingernails, it’ll be that kind of satisfying.  I won’t feel so restless anymore, I think.”

“Counterpoint: You won’t feel restless anymore because you’ll have a bullet in your skull,” I said.

“I’ll have to break your arms and legs before I start,” she said, her head turning as she looked in the general direction of the one Otis had disarmed.

She wasn’t listening to me.  She was convincing herself.

“Hey, Small Mercy,” I said.  I clacked the end of my sword against the wall.  “Hey!  Hey, listen, listen.  Pay attention.”

She turned her head back to me.

“Look at your dress,” I said.  “Look down, look at it.”

She did.

“We helped you get that dress,” I said.  “We-”

“Fucken’ die!” one of the other Mercies called out.  “I’ll fucken’ eat your skin!” - [https://twigserial.wordpress.com/2017/01/28/head-over-heels-16-12/ Excerpt] from [[Head over Heels 16.12]]</ref>
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