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[theenviousone]

You spend all your time trying to get their attention, trying to do something they'll approve of.

Then one small accident, exposed to mercury for just a bit too long, though it could have been anything, and you've had it. And they're too wrapped up in their own work to even notice!

It's only days later when you're in fucking agony that they see

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[oneeyedservant]

You are fortunate to have another life.

[theenviousone]

I don't have 'another' life. This is my life.

That wasn't me.

[oneeyedservant]

No?

[theenviousone]

S'nothing left of the human in a homunculus.

[oneeyedservant]

Ah... I see.

[theenviousone]

So it doesn't matter what happened to him.

[oneeyedservant]

Yes, the human form is expendable.

[theenviousone]

Exactly.