"I certainly did no such thing." ZEX tried to sound as confident of this fact as he knew he should be. "I'd never hurt my human! He's very dear to me, you know. Nothing else in my menagerie can compare to him." ZEX paused for a moment, a bit thoughtfully. "Well, I wouldn't harm him unless I had no choice, but that's not the same thing, I don't think."
It was difficult to remember that DAX wasn't talking about reality as he remembered it, and he paused to sort his thoughts again. It wasn't his Captain that DAX was talking about, it was the... it was this Caleb person. Which meant...
"Wait... so Max knew Caleb then?" That was an... odd coincidence. If he'd known his Captain from his memories, then encountered him here and had him confirm those memories, that gave some credence to them, or at least that was how his hopes ran. If he'd- if Max had known this Caleb before he came here, then incorporating him into this "delusion" wouldn't be difficult, or even unexpected-
ZEX tried to stop the doubt gnawing at him. "I don't remember a Caleb... I remember my Captain, and his Precursor flagship. I can still remember the day we met... after waiting for twenty years after the War, to finally see a human again..." He could still remember how it felt. That couldn't have been a lie. His voice was faltering again. "They just call him Caleb here, for some reason..."
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"I certainly did no such thing." ZEX tried to sound as confident of this fact as he knew he should be. "I'd never hurt my human! He's very dear to me, you know. Nothing else in my menagerie can compare to him." ZEX paused for a moment, a bit thoughtfully. "Well, I wouldn't harm him unless I had no choice, but that's not the same thing, I don't think."
It was difficult to remember that DAX wasn't talking about reality as he remembered it, and he paused to sort his thoughts again. It wasn't his Captain that DAX was talking about, it was the... it was this Caleb person. Which meant...
"Wait... so Max knew Caleb then?" That was an... odd coincidence. If he'd known his Captain from his memories, then encountered him here and had him confirm those memories, that gave some credence to them, or at least that was how his hopes ran. If he'd- if Max had known this Caleb before he came here, then incorporating him into this "delusion" wouldn't be difficult, or even unexpected-
ZEX tried to stop the doubt gnawing at him. "I don't remember a Caleb... I remember my Captain, and his Precursor flagship. I can still remember the day we met... after waiting for twenty years after the War, to finally see a human again..." He could still remember how it felt. That couldn't have been a lie. His voice was faltering again. "They just call him Caleb here, for some reason..."