Protecting can be good, if it's people you actually want to protect and if you have a chance of not dying during your efforts. But even then, apparently when you die here you just get resurrected? Why did this place need them if it could oh so easily resurrect it's own troops?

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Running into him will always be like hitting a wall of stone, Nik, because he doesn't seem to move. Equius merely stands there and slowly looks down behind him before finally moving to turn around, crouching to get closer to Nikolai's height.

"Oh, Nikolai. How have you been?"