Rather than back track on a rewrite, here are the next few paragraphs. The intention here is to help visualize the main character.Arius ducked down and through the service portal, easing himself sideways out into the back alley. It wasn't that the doorway was small, but even hunched down he was well over two meters tall and just under a meter wide at the shoulders. Close cropped grey hair topped a boxy skull with random patches of gristle poking up between the scars and wrinkles that cascaded down his face. It was a noble face chisled unkindly by age and experience. Narrow slits hid dark dull orbs of black on black, eyes manufactured by the Trehan guild. Beneath a wide flat nose, he had a cruel scar of a mouth that had only twice ever curled into the semblance of a smile. His ribs still ached, but he could now feel the tingling stirring of the nanobots. He'd coded in the dosage capsule back at the diner with the instructions to regenerate and downed a healthy mouthful of the nanobots. It took an hour before the army of microscopic machines was able to locate the damaged parts of his body. They would have another six hours to work on repairing and reconstructing his body before they consumed themselves completely. He would then have to take another dosage if the regenerative work was not completed in time. It was beginning to rain in the early hours of the morning. A warm, acidic drizzle according to how the droplets registered in the spectrum of his amplified vision. He drew his coat tighter around himself. Arius knew he would need to find shelter against this kind of rain. His hardened skin wouldn't react too badly to the acids, but the replacement limbs would not take kindly to prolonged exposure. "Lower Mesopotamia", he muttered. Three stops down via the tubes or a short hop on the DysTrans shuttle. He wasn't really in a hurry and the tubes did offer more anonimity.

And that's as far as I got. Feedback and critique. I don't mind starting over completely. I still am not sure where I am going with this particular character/story, but you are right... I do have a pretty well developed back story. Thank you in advance. Cheers! M

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