The Surgeons, they did this to me," says the man. Then he coughs, and a gobbet of black bile flies from his lips. "I thought I could protect myself from them. I was wrong."
"What's happening to you?"
His surprise at your question seems to break through his agonized self-concern. "You don't know? They get inside you. They change you. You become one of them…already I'm thinking thoughts that aren't mine, remembering places I've never been to. A world with a green sky…" His bones crack and twist, and the chitinous black covering visibly creeps across his face. Then he screams out, "You can't save me! You have to kill me. Please, do it now! There's no more time!"