No matter what reality he was in, Raiden had never heard of a place called Expel. That probably meant it didn't actually exist, though he found it strange that Ashton judged by the constellations of all of things. He had never paid attention to stuff like that.

The fact that Ashton tried to turn it around on him made him bristle a bit, but he was distracted by the question that followed.

Friends. Even in his delusions, he hadn't really had any. Rose's friends had been his friends by association, but not really. Other than that, his pickings were slim. He didn't think he could count Snake as one; he didn't really know what Snake would count as.

It was hard to think that he, of all people, wasn't real.

"I... don't know," he admitted with a frown. It was hard to say that out loud.