[tighter, not titer, in my last post. Argh. -_- *should possibly not be posting when he's had a whole three hours of sleep* *posts anyway, then goes back to bed*]
Ah.
That... explained a lot, actually. If ZEX's visitor had reaffirmed the lies of the institute, and ZEX wanted to believe them for some reason (it must have been someone he trusted a lot, right?), then... "Admiral, you're not the person this place, or your visitor, tells you you are. Even if you want to believe it, or think you should, you're just not." Careful, gentle, feeling almost as if ZEX was going to break apart if handled too roughly, he stroked his hair again. "Delusion wouldn't explain the monsters in the halls, anyway, or us being let out at night-- no real institute would do that--- or the way Fwiffo and Tanaka are here, too, or any of that. They just want you to give up."
It was a rather forced smile he gave ZEX, too worried to find a real one. "And I wouldn't expect the most brilliant military leader from the war to surrender without a fight."
Re: Inside M39
Ah.
That... explained a lot, actually. If ZEX's visitor had reaffirmed the lies of the institute, and ZEX wanted to believe them for some reason (it must have been someone he trusted a lot, right?), then... "Admiral, you're not the person this place, or your visitor, tells you you are. Even if you want to believe it, or think you should, you're just not." Careful, gentle, feeling almost as if ZEX was going to break apart if handled too roughly, he stroked his hair again. "Delusion wouldn't explain the monsters in the halls, anyway, or us being let out at night-- no real institute would do that--- or the way Fwiffo and Tanaka are here, too, or any of that. They just want you to give up."
It was a rather forced smile he gave ZEX, too worried to find a real one. "And I wouldn't expect the most brilliant military leader from the war to surrender without a fight."