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Challenging

'With you'... the words echo down the hollow of your body.

Medium

Her heart is steadier than yours. Are you underestimating her still?

Godly

You're going to get her killed today.

Medium

Her earnestness stirs a deep terror in you.

Medium

The movement seems involuntary.

Medium

That took great courage for her to say.

Easy

You should take your tiny hostage to a medical professional and get it assessed.

Challenging

The advance guard.

Challenging

That is... oddly satisfying.

Challenging

This is horrible. This just makes you want drugs even more.

Challenging

You can almost see the spine rip itself out the back of him and slither off.

Challenging

Once you've learned to enjoy your own horror, the world is a different kind of oyster.

Medium

Going too fast to stop himself right away.

Medium

Loaded. Fingering the safety latch.

Legendary

Get on his level.

Heroic

Your gag reflex activates. You puke into your mouth, swallow it, almost puke again.

Formidable

Medium

He's been waiting for this moment.

Easy

Coiled. Fingering the safety latch.

Challenging

All systems go down. A brief but total outage.

Medium

Still, it sickens you. One of yours. One of yours.

Medium

If Karolina managed not to give them anything then the Weeping Eye will have taken a lot in return.

Challenging

You would have stayed had you known. You would have rescued her.

Medium

She sets her jaw, taking you in as if for the first time.

Medium

Here it comes...

Challenging

Shit, bluff called. What is she into?

Challenging

It will have to be. You've come too far.

Easy

A stoic drunk. Tourniquetting the slur with sheer concentration.

Challenging

A combination of anaesthesia and mettle just about manage to contain his fear.

Heroic

You let him go. You let him go. You let him go.

Legendary

You let him get away.

Legendary

That was his last show of fear, now he sucks it all back into himself.

Formidable

Your gun suddenly feels heavy, or is it your hand that feels weak?

Medium

Unfortunately, he's right.

Challenging

Stay calm. Even if the Opera's purposes dovetail with those of the Weeping Eye, it makes no difference to your mission.

Medium

No parade, and no funeral, either.

Legendary

Distrust. Then relief. Then an even greater mistrust.

Medium

Don't be distracted by the tiger beetle's iridescent shell, look at it's eyes -- the eyes of a killer.

Medium

No calendars, no clocks. Days bleeding into one another; waves eating the shoreline.

Easy

Not perceptibly. But there was something at a base pheromonal level that pitted you against each other from day one.

Trivial

Voice was strong. Good. Ignore the twisting in your stomach.

Easy

Maybe you didn't want to see it.

Easy

A lurch in your stomach at the sight of the drop.

Medium

A preview of coming attractions.

Easy

Nerves, stretched taut to breaking point.

Trivial

A faint current dances across your skin, as if frantically searching for ground.

Medium

No spiritual, chemical, or therapeutic substitute.

Medium

Hold fast, guard yourself against those who would test you. This is the path that must be followed.

Medium

No more distance, no more pain...

Medium

Who are your superiors to decide what your real assignment is?