I removed this addition to the Chzo Mythos entry because the example is about literally being unable to scream (the character dies, if nastily, they're not kept alive forever):
Also, the short story Expedition set in the same universe has denizens of the Magical Realm, beings whose physical bodies have become almost entirely atrophied from a reliance on magic. When one is captured by The Prince the narrator realizes that the low hissing sound he makes while being tortured is him trying to scream with his mostly vestigal vocal chords.
It does not matter who I am. What matters is, who will you become? - motto of Omsk Bird
I removed this addition to the Chzo Mythos entry because the example is about literally being unable to scream (the character dies, if nastily, they're not kept alive forever):
- Also, the short story Expedition set in the same universe has denizens of the Magical Realm, beings whose physical bodies have become almost entirely atrophied from a reliance on magic. When one is captured by The Prince the narrator realizes that the low hissing sound he makes while being tortured is him trying to scream with his mostly vestigal vocal chords.
It does not matter who I am. What matters is, who will you become? - motto of Omsk Bird