[ As the sedative flowed into him, Dorian lurched forward slightly, like someone who just had a dizzy spell, before reasserting himself and settling back into that stupor. ]

What would they destroy? My youth? My immortality? Even if I could die, it wouldn't stay dead. This place would just resurrect me again. [ like it had done before. Like it had done to Yuri. Like it would do to practically anybody else here now that he thinks of it. What was the price of immortality if everyone was effectively immortal? ]

But I'm fine with episodic. I fuck up the permanent on a regular basis.