Chapter 45-2: Distorted Truths

[Witch_Doctor]

I'm not worried about Nicholas knowing who his real parents are.... I think Lizzy and Saul are awesome people and he should know who they are..... There is no reason to hide it from him..... But it just like an adopted child..... His "real" parents will be Lizzy and Saul..... But the family he knows and loves will be different.... Nothing wrong with that!

Oh Noooooo!!!

Saul goes into a rage over the death of Lizzy and he begins to turn.
He then attacks Victor and they fight it out.
Victor throws Saul into one of the cracks at Ground Zero.
When Saul claws his way out, he is fully turned. Waiting for him is Ink.
He armors Saul in a Treehemoth's keratin exoskeleton with a scuba tank that allows him to breath regular air by converting it to Ground Zero haze.

Little Nicholas is sent to be raised by Pete. Doomed to a childhood of farming moister out of the ground to fill water bottles.
Idling the time by bulls-eying sewer rats.
He will be helped along to fulfill his destiny by Victor, who watches Nicholas grow from beyond the 8th and Grand, and the old yet powerful soldier, Micheal.

After meeting Victor, Nicholas' new goal in life is to become a soldier, like his father before him.