Agreed. Let me take some pictures. Once we have Texas' weigh-in, we can move the proposal forward. I can't imagine any board will have much to say about changes.

[ Especially when they couldn't offer them initially as it is. If they want tweaks, she also imagines they can probably make them fairly easily with Ace's abilities and some other helpers. Mass producing them is going to be the difficulty, especially with what he tells her.

Mel listens, but she is taking out her device to snap those pictures while she does so. It allows her to better disguise her concern, give her the space to properly digest what he's telling her. But the device goes away and Ace gets her full attention now. ]

Mine is simply different. It's a bird. [ She brushes up one of her sleeves, letting him see the long line of dark feathers beginning to cover her arms. Her nails have been clipped today, or she'd show those too. ] And while it isn't making me ill, it's started to become painful in places I wasn't expecting.

[ With the feathers coming in, they disguise all the cracks in her skin and muscle as new flesh appears, and she'd like to not show those off. ]

Not that I would want to suggest it, but have you asked Patho-Gen why this is happening? What kind of Soul do you have, if you're all right with sharing?

[ He doesn't have to, but it just feels...wrong for these people to have given him a Soul that would hurt him as much as it is. ]