Thanks! It was a lot of fun tuning in the character voice for the POVamp, and I'm glad to see it resonated well.
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Aye, I didn't get as many rewrites in as I would have liked for this one, so I was worried I'd spread the "unlikely allies" a bit thin. Grek & the Foreman were originally meant to be one of three groups that had technically become unlikely allies, but one group only gets revealed in the last few paragraphs, and I'm not sure if the third even comes across in the final product.
Glad you enjoyed it though!
As some have said, it's a bit light on the Rock and Hard Place theming, but I utterly loved this! Taking the medical horror of "the reveal" and spinning it in the protagonist's eyes to become an issue of cultural identity was a great way to double down on the tragedy. It was a great choice to have the first signs of things being wrong being so similar to the effects alcohol withdrawal in human alcoholics, it got me pulled into the same assumption as the protagonist, which is an impressive thing to pull off in such a short work!