[This... is not going to be easy. Not on any level. He doesn't want to have this conversation, but if this man is going to be linked to him more closely than others, he owes Bruce the knowledge. And Ren's words just cemented the possibility into something more like reality.]
[When he manages to find the words, they're slow, quiet. The only way he can think of to get them out.]
A year ago, maybe longer... me and my crew [His crew, always his. Always his responsibility.] were taken prisoner by an alien empire we didn't even know existed. I... Don't remember most of it. Just flashes. I don't know where I was, what I did. Where... parts of me were taken,
[Meaning the metal arm. The limb it replaced.]
And when I do remember, I'm... back there again, until it's over. Or something pulls me back. And last time it happened... [images of metal hand impacting glass the cracks radiating out like ripples he didn't mean to do that and it hurts oh god it hurts so much what's going on it's glowing he doesn't want this what did they do and BLANK.]
... I attacked a prisoner. And ejected his pod into space.
no subject
[When he manages to find the words, they're slow, quiet. The only way he can think of to get them out.]
A year ago, maybe longer... me and my crew [His crew, always his. Always his responsibility.] were taken prisoner by an alien empire we didn't even know existed. I... Don't remember most of it. Just flashes. I don't know where I was, what I did. Where... parts of me were taken,
[Meaning the metal arm. The limb it replaced.]
And when I do remember, I'm... back there again, until it's over. Or something pulls me back. And last time it happened... [images of metal hand impacting glass the cracks radiating out like ripples he didn't mean to do that and it hurts oh god it hurts so much what's going on it's glowing he doesn't want this what did they do and BLANK.]
... I attacked a prisoner. And ejected his pod into space.