Of course it would. It does. Do you think I've just "snapped back" from-...
[He cuts himself off, hands clenching tight as, unbidden, he remembers the words written on the walls of the school taunting him, calling to mind everything he'd been made to believe with all his being in that tower, and of that alien mind he had been made to call his own. He would sooner die than have it take him again.
His stomach churns, but is currently empty.]
I would never say they wouldn't be changed. But at least we could make them themselves again. Even if it would hurt, I can't-...in their place, would you prefer to remain hostile against your friends? Would you really, truly want to remain ignorant, if you had been forced into being so?
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[He cuts himself off, hands clenching tight as, unbidden, he remembers the words written on the walls of the school taunting him, calling to mind everything he'd been made to believe with all his being in that tower, and of that alien mind he had been made to call his own. He would sooner die than have it take him again.
His stomach churns, but is currently empty.]
I would never say they wouldn't be changed. But at least we could make them themselves again. Even if it would hurt, I can't-...in their place, would you prefer to remain hostile against your friends? Would you really, truly want to remain ignorant, if you had been forced into being so?