[Christ. Where to even begin with any of that. What to even ask first.]
Somnius...
[Akira starts there, at least, spelling out the unfamiliar word. That Maruki knows about cognitive worlds is alarming in itself - what exactly happened between them-? - but it does take a burden off. There's a chance he doesn't have to explain that, or at least explain much of it, because he's dealing with someone on equal footing.
In spite of everything, it's a strange comfort when there isn't much of that to be found.
His hands itch for his notebook, or a new one entirely, a place to organize his thoughts and list out what he knows, what he still needs to find out. He thinks of all the Monabuses that would be doodled between the margins with a sharp ache, and considers that perhaps it's better to not have it after all.]
You've been here for half a year, but time only passes within... whatever this place is, if I'm understanding that right. [So he addresses what he knows, and jumps into what he doesn't-] When you said that my probation hadn't happened "for you" yet, is that what you meant? It wasn't unprecedented for you, because you knew people could come and go without it having any effect on our reality?
[It requires having to rethink everything that he knows, to accept this as truth. But it's hardly the first time that Akira has ever had to do that.]
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Somnius...
[Akira starts there, at least, spelling out the unfamiliar word. That Maruki knows about cognitive worlds is alarming in itself - what exactly happened between them-? - but it does take a burden off. There's a chance he doesn't have to explain that, or at least explain much of it, because he's dealing with someone on equal footing.
In spite of everything, it's a strange comfort when there isn't much of that to be found.
His hands itch for his notebook, or a new one entirely, a place to organize his thoughts and list out what he knows, what he still needs to find out. He thinks of all the Monabuses that would be doodled between the margins with a sharp ache, and considers that perhaps it's better to not have it after all.]
You've been here for half a year, but time only passes within... whatever this place is, if I'm understanding that right. [So he addresses what he knows, and jumps into what he doesn't-] When you said that my probation hadn't happened "for you" yet, is that what you meant? It wasn't unprecedented for you, because you knew people could come and go without it having any effect on our reality?
[It requires having to rethink everything that he knows, to accept this as truth. But it's hardly the first time that Akira has ever had to do that.]