SCMR Chpt 42

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==Chapter 42 - Self Configuring Modular Robot==
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"You don't understand...
...Arthur!" Elizabeth was red faced and cheeks streaked with tears, "I don't get to have a future!" she hurled a PADD against the wall, "I'm going to die!"
"Liz, we can fix this!" Arthur argued. It wasn't maybe the best tactic for handling a breakup, in Peter's estimation, it was puppy-love anyway, he'd said as much when Arthur had the poor judgment to confide in an older brother about his feelings.
"It can't be fixed Arthur, I'm dying of something the Star League couldn't fix-the best they were able to do, was invent painkillers that stop working over time!" she was shaking and red-faced. Frightened and scared and vulnerable.
"lizzie-"
"YOU are a Royal Scion, Arthur. I'm not a good marriage match politically, I'm dead by forty! I won't see kids, never mind grandkids, because pregnancy accelerates the progress!!" she grabbed him by the shoulders, "Find someone else, Arthur, someone who can stay, who isn't going to be...an animal, someone who isn't doomed to die insane and in agony."
"Liz- please don't do this. There's gotta be something, something nobody figured out before." he plead, "We can crack it if they can't!"
"You can't fix this, Arthur. My Great Uncle lasted ninety days in stage three, in so much agony he was nothing but an animal, screaming his throat bloody in that ward. I...I don't want to do that. I don't want anyone to see me like that...just...go. I have to pack. I have a powerful lot of work left to do, and a lot less time than I thought I had to do it."
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