[ The admission is troubling. Lines blurring like that is very troubling to Bellamy, whose assessment of Shiro sharpens as the consequence of what Shiro is telling him settles in Bellamy's mind. ]
(This isn't what it looks like when people are being studied.) [ is what Bellamy finally, carefully, answers. ] (Focus on that. It'll help you both. If he can't see it, you'll have to see it for him.)
[ Mount Weather is a ghostly presence in the back of Bellamy's head. It can't be allowed to be anything more than that. The last time he and Clint had looped, it was because of Bellamy's recollection of Mount Weather. But Bellamy recognizes the last thing that will be helpful in this conversation is the memory of cages and needles and blood.
And Bellamy doesn't want to relive any of that again. His mind recoils away from it, roots itself in the present rather than consider the past. ]
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( This isn't what it looks like when people are being studied. ) [ is what Bellamy finally, carefully, answers. ] ( Focus on that. It'll help you both. If he can't see it, you'll have to see it for him. )
[ Mount Weather is a ghostly presence in the back of Bellamy's head. It can't be allowed to be anything more than that. The last time he and Clint had looped, it was because of Bellamy's recollection of Mount Weather. But Bellamy recognizes the last thing that will be helpful in this conversation is the memory of cages and needles and blood.
And Bellamy doesn't want to relive any of that again. His mind recoils away from it, roots itself in the present rather than consider the past. ]