[Even if their lie had been truth, there wouldn't be much that Johnny could have done. Instead, he rolled with Washu's line of thinking.
He stepped closer to the man and put his hand under the arm the mark was on, as if inspecting it.]
Even beyond the potential risk changing it back would pose, a risk I assure you none of us would be willing to take, these markings are not like a pencil sketch; you can't just pull out an eraser and do what you want with it.
As it's been described before, it's more like a tattoo, adding more ink is easy enough, but taking away is practically impossible and highly damaging.
[He turned a saccharine smile to the nurse.]
Needlessly damaging, as a matter of fact. I wouldn't put his man through that willingly. Surely you can think of something less dangerous and more humane to assuage your...yes, 'paranoia' seems to be a fitting word for it.
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He stepped closer to the man and put his hand under the arm the mark was on, as if inspecting it.]
Even beyond the potential risk changing it back would pose, a risk I assure you none of us would be willing to take, these markings are not like a pencil sketch; you can't just pull out an eraser and do what you want with it.
As it's been described before, it's more like a tattoo, adding more ink is easy enough, but taking away is practically impossible and highly damaging.
[He turned a saccharine smile to the nurse.]
Needlessly damaging, as a matter of fact. I wouldn't put his man through that willingly. Surely you can think of something less dangerous and more humane to assuage your...yes, 'paranoia' seems to be a fitting word for it.