"The mountain… I almost… the mountain almost burst out of its cocoon and turned into a butterfly. I… would have been able to flap my wings…"
Ves looked stony as he listened to the incoherent babble of Jessica Quentin.
His staff had recently brought back the Enlightened Warrior mech that he had forcibly shut down. When the medics pulled the mech pilot out of the cockpit, she didn't look so bad at first.
When mech pilots interfaced deeply with a mech, any abrupt shocks and interruptions could inflict noticeable damage to their brains and minds.
This was actually the cause of many mech pilots being forced into retirement because they suffered so much damage that they could no longer establish a proper interfacing connection with a mech.