[In truth, there's no need to offer her agreement: so long as he understands how she framed her words, she doesn't need to be redundant in this moment. And truthfully, Lexa sees it as exactly that. But it is good that someone else distrusts this experience from the start, rather than seeing themselves as so worthless that they have to give themselves wholly and completely.
It may not be fair to see the others that way, but for all Lexa's occasional doubts, one thing is certain: she does not hate herself.]
We have to use these missions to uncover as much information about the Enemy in question while keeping the other Hosts alive and directed properly. I believe the Enemy is very real. We both saw them. [Everyone sees them, and Cathaway had been certain to show her more, to show that this had happened countless times in countless places.]
But you'll see quickly that for a hivemind, nothing here progresses smoothly. They do not offer training in a strict manner, so I have tried to make up for it in their stead. They do not organize missions, so I have begun to work with others to change that. There is no leadership, but to propose it might create a different problem. [So, it's a matter of treating people as pawns, as getting them to give themselves to the Nest while continuing on in whatever way they may like.]
And all the while, we reject the ability that the symbiote gives us. Our tie to the Nest strengthens. It is too hard to ignore the physical abilities or the mental ones, but the additional one, unique to each symbiote ... that is what we need to avoid. [For now.
If they could somehow change things. The problem is, they can't.
Lexa herself comes from a culture where people pass on history by mouth, and though she knows books (loves books, even), it never occurs to her that they need to delve into a database or tear apart what other people know. The inclination is to assume there is nothing, as Prince pointed her to nothing when simply saying there was something would have helped their long-standing misunderstanding.]
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It may not be fair to see the others that way, but for all Lexa's occasional doubts, one thing is certain: she does not hate herself.]
We have to use these missions to uncover as much information about the Enemy in question while keeping the other Hosts alive and directed properly. I believe the Enemy is very real. We both saw them. [Everyone sees them, and Cathaway had been certain to show her more, to show that this had happened countless times in countless places.]
But you'll see quickly that for a hivemind, nothing here progresses smoothly. They do not offer training in a strict manner, so I have tried to make up for it in their stead. They do not organize missions, so I have begun to work with others to change that. There is no leadership, but to propose it might create a different problem. [So, it's a matter of treating people as pawns, as getting them to give themselves to the Nest while continuing on in whatever way they may like.]
And all the while, we reject the ability that the symbiote gives us. Our tie to the Nest strengthens. It is too hard to ignore the physical abilities or the mental ones, but the additional one, unique to each symbiote ... that is what we need to avoid. [For now.
If they could somehow change things. The problem is, they can't.
Lexa herself comes from a culture where people pass on history by mouth, and though she knows books (loves books, even), it never occurs to her that they need to delve into a database or tear apart what other people know. The inclination is to assume there is nothing, as Prince pointed her to nothing when simply saying there was something would have helped their long-standing misunderstanding.]