>>5836619“Why did they DO this to you?” you asked allowed, outraged for your friend-turned-lover. “You were just a little girl.”
No answer came, though, nor a solution… Though from your studies of the pox-creatures, you had a few theories as to how to approach the matter. It was just a matter of choosing an approach to focus upon.
Easier said than done.
In the end, you…
>Offered up a clone [of yourself, or Izzy? Specify, please] to observe the infection and experiment with ways to halt or reverse it>Experimented with the pox-creatures themselves, trying to adjust their reproductive cycle to ‘complete’ the process by producing a stable human-reptilian hybrid>Sought out purer blood—untained, nonchimeric blood compatible with Izirina’s own—in the hopes of ‘unchimericizing’ her>Checked in with izzy herself, to see how her own researches were coming—researches into spiritual transformation and extraplanar escape>Write-in 