Eridium In My Veins

"First time was an accident. Second time was a choice. Third time… I stopped pretending I had a choice."

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First hit. Clean. Like a wire in the spine.

Colors got louder. Silence got teeth.

Second hit. Deeper. The walls started bending.

I saw the code. I saw the machine.

Third hit. I didn't come back for a week.

Something was crawling under my skin.

Something that whispered "let me in."

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ERIDIUM IN MY VEINS. ERIDIUM IN MY BLOOD.

I USED TO BE SOMEONE. NOW I'M JUST THE FLOOD.

ERIDIUM IN MY VEINS. ERIDIUM IN MY TEETH.

I OPEN MY MOUTH AND THE LIGHT POURS OUT.

ERIDIUM. ERIDIUM. LET ME OUT.

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The glow started small. A vein in my arm.

Now it's in my eyes. Now it's in my chest.

Now I'm not sure where I end and the rest

Begins. The purple. The hum. The song.

The voice that says "you've been wrong

Your whole life. This is what you were made for."

I don't sleep anymore. I just dream awake.

Another shard. Another line. Another hit.

Another piece of me that doesn't fit.

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"Do you know what Eridium dreams about? It dreams of blood. It dreams of bone. It dreams of a body to call its own.

I gave it mine. Now I'm not sure where I end and it begins."

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My mother wouldn't recognize me.

My friends are dead or they're afraid.

I don't blame them. I'm afraid too.

My fingers are longer. My teeth are sharper.

My reflection's a stranger.

The purple is spreading. Up my neck. Down my spine.

Every day a little more of me isn't mine.

I used to have dreams. A future. A plan.

Now I just want to feel whole again.

But that version of me died way back when.

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"They say Eridium is a resource. A way to build the future."

IT BUILDS NOTHING. IT TAKES EVERYTHING.

IT CRAWLS INSIDE AND IT WEARS YOUR SKIN.

"I'm not addicted to the purple light."

I AM THE PURPLE. I AM THE LIGHT.

THERE IS NO ME. THERE IS ONLY THE GLOW.

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ERIDIUM IN MY VEINS. ERIDIUM IN MY BLOOD.

I USED TO BE SOMEONE. NOW I'M JUST THE FLOOD.

ERIDIUM IN MY VEINS. ERIDIUM IN MY TEETH.

I OPEN MY MOUTH AND THE LIGHT POURS OUT.

ERIDIUM. ERIDIUM. I'M NOT COMING OUT.

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"If you find me… don't wake me. I'm somewhere in the purple. Somewhere I don't have to remember what I used to be.

It's beautiful here. I'm not anything anymore."