So were you curious or angry?

Only in the sense that I wondered why he hadn't reported it to me since I've ben waiting on him to produce results for years, but he said it was a recent development in his own timeline.

But we were able to discuss how he did it, and I devised how to make Relivers with fully functioning emotional capacity.

[ . . .

but even after he says it, there's a hue of confusion in his emotions. wait what.]

Huh...?

That doesn't make any sense...

[no shit scien

but he's lost in his thoughts i'm so sorry]

[ yeah uhhh ]

That's not... what actually happened, right?

It is... though it's complicated. We came here already remembering two different series of events.

But that was our conversation on Monday. [ . . . ] It makes Thursday harder to explain.

...Yeah, I mean. That kind of doesn't address the thing where parts of him ended up in different rooms on Thursday night.

[ the vibes are honestly less judgmental than might be expected with that remark, it's truly just. what happened there?? ]

Hm... His brain and Reliver piece of him belong in the Institute. I left his heart where I knew it would be safe.

[ . . . ]

But I know best of all that the protocol is to take dead Reliver vessels and burn them to ash.

Yeah, I remember.

[ ... ]

Were you just like, that out of it that you don't even really remember what happened?

[ he could see doing the opposite of the proper protocol to divert suspicion from himself, but it doesn't seem like he really wanted to get away with it... ]

I was entirely in control of myself, and I am responsible for all that I've done.

Okay, so... why did you do that?

[there is a long, contemplative silence. his weird reliver emotions come up again, a swirl of confusion and sparks frustration. he is trying to answer the question.]

... It made sense to me at the time.

But I am aware, more than anyone else, that such a statement makes me sound like a fool.