"Repressed memories are coming back. I did all I could do on my end. The rest of you have to talk to her."
He steps away from THE GUARDIAN OF THE CITY- Wait. That name felt like it was shoved into your brain against your consent. Shit. That's not good if you're starting to get a TITLE instead of its 'name'.

You gesture at Casey to follow you while the rest of the sinners are busy talking to the anomaly with whatever random small talk they can think of.
The two of you walk around until you're right behind the anomaly. The two guns it had pointed at you are now uselessly laying on the ground.

You decide to take the MOSIN NAGNAT just in case. You doubt you can pick up the FEDKILLER considering its link to Nicole.
The eye Dasha told you about is still squirming on the anomaly's back. The flesh around it looks completely out of place from the rest of the anomaly. Salt-stained, sun-scorched skin surrounds the milky white eyeball and shining blue iris.

Casey rests her hand around where the salt-stained flesh ends. Her eyes flicker bright blue for a brief second as if something was attempting to connect with her.
The eye stares up at you. ["I want a connection."], you think that's what it's trying to say, ["This is painful for me too."]

You rest your hand on the other side of the eyeball. Your fingers begin to tingle with electricity. The eyeball blinks, as if asking for approval to 'connect' with you.
The two of you nod.

>46!

The worst pain you have felt in your life floods through your brain.
Every synapse and neuron in your old, blood vial soaked brain is firing a billion signals a second.
Your nerves are on fire. Even the air itself feels like knives being dragged across your face.

Blood gushes out of Casey's lips as she bites down on them, desperately tries to suppress her screams.
Something far, far too vast for either of your meat brains is trying to force itself in.
It seems to realize what's going on because after a few seconds, the pain lessens. Something heavy but manageable pours into the gaps in your brain.

The two of you stumble away from the eyeball...which is no longer there. Where there was once the eyeball is simply dead, salt-soaked flesh.

[CAPTAIN'S] This. Will do. I can not help. Vessel compromised before I. Could leave.
[CAPTAIN'S] You shall be. Temporary vessel. Will regenerate when. Vessel heals.

A fragmentary voice whispers in your head. You never once had voices rambling in your head before until right now. Guess this is a new even for you, huh?

Casey is rubbing her temples to try to soothe the pain in her head. "Uh huh, mmh, the customer's always right!!!" Seems like she's talking to someone too. Great. You hope you can stunt this thing out of your brain soon enough.

The pink miasma that flooded the arena thins. The alarm quiets down for a second before it goes back to warning about 'lethal A-Energy'. Seems like you bought yourself some time with that.
Time to see how the others are handling it.