"Given our situation, doing anything but guilelessly telling them everything they want and letting them do what they want will likely be seen as antagonism." Sullenness creeps back in by degrees, gaze shifting from his King to the distant monitors. "If they're investigating the train, why are we being psychologically tortured? What need do they have of gagueing our strength and skills? Why didn't they simply ask for help instead of forcing us into their little game? They couldn't even ask questions without trying for emotional submission. And now we sit here, watching our fellows continue to be tortured for ... what?"
Beneath the shroud of his warm, comfy blanket, Xehanort's eyes narrow at those distant screens. "I think I spotted Even on one of those monitors. I don't know what I'm going to tell him later about us sitting here peacefully watching him suffer under someone else's forced tests, after all he's been through til now. But oh, we shouldn't antagonize the people responsible.."
There's a low disgusted noise. "I don't know about you, my Lord, but sitting here and 'not antagonizing them' feels very much like participating in the suffering going on right now in the name of 'simulated exercises'. It sounds like precisely the sort of thing I'd be doing in another few years."
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"Given our situation, doing anything but guilelessly telling them everything they want and letting them do what they want will likely be seen as antagonism." Sullenness creeps back in by degrees, gaze shifting from his King to the distant monitors. "If they're investigating the train, why are we being psychologically tortured? What need do they have of gagueing our strength and skills? Why didn't they simply ask for help instead of forcing us into their little game? They couldn't even ask questions without trying for emotional submission. And now we sit here, watching our fellows continue to be tortured for ... what?"
Beneath the shroud of his warm, comfy blanket, Xehanort's eyes narrow at those distant screens. "I think I spotted Even on one of those monitors. I don't know what I'm going to tell him later about us sitting here peacefully watching him suffer under someone else's forced tests, after all he's been through til now. But oh, we shouldn't antagonize the people responsible.."
There's a low disgusted noise. "I don't know about you, my Lord, but sitting here and 'not antagonizing them' feels very much like participating in the suffering going on right now in the name of 'simulated exercises'. It sounds like precisely the sort of thing I'd be doing in another few years."