[ Adra's initial emotion in response to this barrage is, in fact, triumph. This is the kind of thing he lives for, the kind of thing he pushes for. This, to him, is getting somewhere. ]
(It's a tricky thing, I'd say. I don't know you. But I already know a lot more about you than I ever would have if not for our situation. )
[ Like the dream, like the desert. Fragmented images of a past that was not his own, of suffering beyond his particular experience--but not beyond his understanding. ]
(I know all about the warning, by the way. Sam made sure to tell me exactly what would happen to us if we failed. Why would I come after you to play along otherwise?)
[ He's not taken aback or deterred by the story of madness in the desert. Talk of people being eaten triggers images of wars in Adra's own history, battles with cannibalistic trolls that went on for years. His comrades roasting over a spit, eaten piece by piece. His own dirty cage; the poison they fed him, a hallucinogenic that turned his blood to sludge.
He frowns. Who's projecting, exactly? ]
(Let me tell you what I do know. Your past is not this team's future.)
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( It's a tricky thing, I'd say. I don't know you. But I already know a lot more about you than I ever would have if not for our situation. )
[ Like the dream, like the desert. Fragmented images of a past that was not his own, of suffering beyond his particular experience--but not beyond his understanding. ]
( I know all about the warning, by the way. Sam made sure to tell me exactly what would happen to us if we failed. Why would I come after you to play along otherwise? )
[ He's not taken aback or deterred by the story of madness in the desert. Talk of people being eaten triggers images of wars in Adra's own history, battles with cannibalistic trolls that went on for years. His comrades roasting over a spit, eaten piece by piece. His own dirty cage; the poison they fed him, a hallucinogenic that turned his blood to sludge.
He frowns. Who's projecting, exactly? ]
( Let me tell you what I do know. Your past is not this team's future. )