[By this point, with the way his mask has settled, leaving his eyes nothing more than a twin set of sharp yellow spots of light, it's impossible to see if he's rolling them. His tone covers that.]
I wouldn't think it's too late to avoid crawling back on to the science table. Even lab rats aren't that dumb.
[He doubts any of them were experimented with just once. That would be too simple. He's glad that most of those memories, for him, are only second-hand.
She goes and says protagonists like they're all characters in a story. The damn weirdo. But he finds himself surprised, even with the flippancy of how she says it, that she would admit that this has exhausted her at all. He gets it. He knows even just this, talking now in any normal way at all, should be an impossibility in and of itself.
He finds himself rolling his eyes again.]
There are enough morons and monsters in that town that someone could attack her for that. You can play dress-up on your own time.
[He spares a glance to V, wondering all the while how she'll react the mask.]
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I wouldn't think it's too late to avoid crawling back on to the science table. Even lab rats aren't that dumb.
[He doubts any of them were experimented with just once. That would be too simple. He's glad that most of those memories, for him, are only second-hand.
She goes and says protagonists like they're all characters in a story. The damn weirdo. But he finds himself surprised, even with the flippancy of how she says it, that she would admit that this has exhausted her at all. He gets it. He knows even just this, talking now in any normal way at all, should be an impossibility in and of itself.
He finds himself rolling his eyes again.]
There are enough morons and monsters in that town that someone could attack her for that. You can play dress-up on your own time.
[He spares a glance to V, wondering all the while how she'll react the mask.]
You. How well can you explain your situation?