Ruin is the inevitable end of all things, yes. [ that he agrees with easily, not missing a beat. countries crumble, the flesh rots, and monsters succumb to their baser instincts no matter how much they might wish otherwise. ] Merely a matter of how long it takes, as you say... I suppose I ask mainly to establish what you might think is the approximate timeline for this progression.

A matter of weeks? Months? If it's in the magnitude of years the calamity here will become a concern sooner than your tenuous grip on clarity.

Unless you simply don't know.

[ and in which case... does that haunt mika? the uncertainty of not knowing when it is he'll cease to be himself? of waking up one day and realizing he's not who he was,

or maybe, this is just how he's been, all along? ]