At any rate, what's being said does make sense, for a given degree of making sense - really, it's something that he'd be insisting if someone he was close to were to tell him something like that. Granted, the difference here is that he generally reserves actually trying to have a functioning sense of empathy for the people who are either under his immediate care or otherwise are considered family in some way, not some random stranger on the network that he's never spoken to before. It's a little unnerving, but he'd just gotten done trying to tell someone else that this sort of thing can be trusted here, hadn't he?
Okay, let's...try this thing, psycho clown or not.]
It's as I said before - most of us seem to have been brought here from a time of high stress or conflict, and I'm not an exception to that. Many of my classmates are still in a bad situation back home, and one who was brought here recently seems to have confirmed something that I was hoping wasn't the case.
[...]
And my brother is here as well, and he and I already know things won't end well for us back where we came from.
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At any rate, what's being said does make sense, for a given degree of making sense - really, it's something that he'd be insisting if someone he was close to were to tell him something like that. Granted, the difference here is that he generally reserves actually trying to have a functioning sense of empathy for the people who are either under his immediate care or otherwise are considered family in some way, not some random stranger on the network that he's never spoken to before. It's a little unnerving, but he'd just gotten done trying to tell someone else that this sort of thing can be trusted here, hadn't he?
Okay, let's...try this thing, psycho clown or not.]
It's as I said before - most of us seem to have been brought here from a time of high stress or conflict, and I'm not an exception to that. Many of my classmates are still in a bad situation back home, and one who was brought here recently seems to have confirmed something that I was hoping wasn't the case.
[...]
And my brother is here as well, and he and I already know things won't end well for us back where we came from.
[Mnngh.]
It's just a lot to think about, that's all.