"Me? I'm doing absolutely fine."
Lind raised his hand to stop Lania from trying to summon a Pharmacist, he had absolute control over his own body, and he indeed was not lying.
He was doing extraordinarily well.
The second heartbeat was strong enough to almost completely overshadow the first, filling his ears as if they were stuffed with a drum, his heart pounding incessantly.
His weakness stemmed from the mental strain of trying to restrain his own power, preventing himself from suddenly becoming too strong was a very difficult thing to do.
"Sir, you don't look..." Doris started to interject, as a Recorder Officer she should remain detached from all matters, faithfully recording everything from an observer's perspective, but right now Lind's condition made her worried.
Lind's body, however, suddenly tilted.
Lania almost instinctively moved closer to Lind, positioning herself in the direction of his fall.
