This story went in directions that surprised me. I decided to back story the “bad guy” and it’s most of the story so far. lol
I have a story short, only a few paragraphs, from the point of view of someone going toe to toe with Soames.
And Soames does something quite terrifyingly horrible, he heals the guy via nanite infection and basically makes him “experience existence as I do” before letting him go.
From that point of view, Soames is a real serious badguy.
I posted a bit of it once “Subject: Carnivore”.