It wasn't the place, it was the people here that helped him keep his sanity, mostly, although now DAX's words had put that into question itself. Had they simply made the situation worse? That couldn't be right, they'd all done such things together, he'd felt... happy here, at least once. After he and his Captain... that couldn't have made things worse.
At least the question had DAX thinking, and for a moment, a bridge between then and now formed in his mind. "It is true that I can be uncooperative when the mood takes me on occasion, as I'm sure you can remember..." ZEX had almost been smiling at the beginning of his statement, teasing almost, and then that cursed word. DAX, this DAX, he probably didn't remember, wouldn't know what he was talking about. How quickly it sobered his mood. "The doctors... yes, I do have a therapist now that I think about it." ZEX smiled just slightly. "He's very handsome, if I recall correctly..."
ZEX hovered a hand where his trunk should have been. "That's right, his female companion... that does make things complicated." ZEX tried to imagine a life without his Captain and found it too horrible to think about. There had to be some way around this. He paused, thinking hard. "If the real threat is outside these walls, from the authorities that you describe... why should I avoid him in here? If we are both mad, there's no danger, is there? As long as I am mad, they cannot get me here, can they?" ZEX wasn't sure how a human police system worked, but he was trying to gather the basics from what DAX had described.
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At least the question had DAX thinking, and for a moment, a bridge between then and now formed in his mind. "It is true that I can be uncooperative when the mood takes me on occasion, as I'm sure you can remember..." ZEX had almost been smiling at the beginning of his statement, teasing almost, and then that cursed word. DAX, this DAX, he probably didn't remember, wouldn't know what he was talking about. How quickly it sobered his mood. "The doctors... yes, I do have a therapist now that I think about it." ZEX smiled just slightly. "He's very handsome, if I recall correctly..."
ZEX hovered a hand where his trunk should have been. "That's right, his female companion... that does make things complicated." ZEX tried to imagine a life without his Captain and found it too horrible to think about. There had to be some way around this. He paused, thinking hard. "If the real threat is outside these walls, from the authorities that you describe... why should I avoid him in here? If we are both mad, there's no danger, is there? As long as I am mad, they cannot get me here, can they?" ZEX wasn't sure how a human police system worked, but he was trying to gather the basics from what DAX had described.