That made sense with the reality that DAX presented, which was unfortunate. If there'd been no reason, if he'd just been here, then it wouldn't have been so easily explained. If there was an explanation, even if it was one that he didn't want to hear...
"So you think my human is mad too? All of us, mad..." Fwiffo and Tanaka were in the same situation as he was... they believed they were something else, and yet were still human. But his Captain, he'd been unchanged by the experience, that gave him an element of believability that the others did not have, but... if he was merely party to his delusions...
Was that why his human remembered him being killed? Torn to pieces by his Beauty? Was that his human's unconscous revenge for what he'd done to him to put him in this place?
ZEX gasped at the thought, horrified and yet even worse, it fit. Within this terrible reality that explained everything he thought was true all too neatly, it fit and it left him with little else. If his Captain was trapped in the same delusions...
"Is that why...?" Under his breath, still horrified, and he reached out and took DAX's hand, squinting at him with both eyes open, trying to get him in focus. "Is that why, he told me, he told me I'd been killed, he saw me torn apart by my Beauty, he thought I was dead, that's why he didn't believe I was myself at first, is that why... because I did that to him, is that why..."
He squeezed DAX's hand, like he would have squeezed his arm if he was a VUX. If he was a VUX. His voice was strained and shaky. "Please... please tell me this isn't true."
no subject
"So you think my human is mad too? All of us, mad..." Fwiffo and Tanaka were in the same situation as he was... they believed they were something else, and yet were still human. But his Captain, he'd been unchanged by the experience, that gave him an element of believability that the others did not have, but... if he was merely party to his delusions...
Was that why his human remembered him being killed? Torn to pieces by his Beauty? Was that his human's unconscous revenge for what he'd done to him to put him in this place?
ZEX gasped at the thought, horrified and yet even worse, it fit. Within this terrible reality that explained everything he thought was true all too neatly, it fit and it left him with little else. If his Captain was trapped in the same delusions...
"Is that why...?" Under his breath, still horrified, and he reached out and took DAX's hand, squinting at him with both eyes open, trying to get him in focus. "Is that why, he told me, he told me I'd been killed, he saw me torn apart by my Beauty, he thought I was dead, that's why he didn't believe I was myself at first, is that why... because I did that to him, is that why..."
He squeezed DAX's hand, like he would have squeezed his arm if he was a VUX. If he was a VUX. His voice was strained and shaky. "Please... please tell me this isn't true."