Immortal slime god

"Well sure," I said. "But I could be living a hundred lives all at the same time. I could be a doctor, a lawyer, a rock star and a member of a boy band all at the same time."

 

"Can you sing?" Amy asked.

 

"How hard can it be?" I asked. "Just change the voice box and the shape of the…"

 

"No," Amy said. "You won't be in a boy band, even if you can grow the right equipment, and there's a lot more to singing than just having a good voice."

 

"That's the thing," I said. "I could learn to sing, to act, to be a scientist and everything else, all at the same time and still have twenty bodies to be heroes and more to be explorers."

 

"That's ambitious…"

 

"Aging isn't a thing for me anymore; it's one of the first modifications I tried. I'll have a hundred lifetimes for every lifetime that passes in the real world, live seven thousand years in the next seventy. Eventually boredom will set in, and well, then you're off trying to be a slime god for a while."

 

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