Well. She didn't seem surprised about the whole 'punching a superior officer' thing. Just as well. Less to explain that way. He shrugged one shoulder, arms folding across his chest.
"It was a lie. The project was all about one man trying to chase a ghost. He lied to and manipulated everyone in the project, and in turn? They started to do it to each other. Friends, comrades, people who thought they loved each other? All torn apart, fighting one another. Everyone had a secret agenda. Everyone would use anyone to get what they wanted."
His stare across the water had gone hard around the edges. "Me? I just wound up in the line of fire one too many times for my liking."
Less than the truth. It glossed over one very specific moment, the moment of realization, when the pieces of the puzzle were forcibly shoved into his head by a digital entity with a death wish.
But that was just making it more complicated than it needed to be.
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"It was a lie. The project was all about one man trying to chase a ghost. He lied to and manipulated everyone in the project, and in turn? They started to do it to each other. Friends, comrades, people who thought they loved each other? All torn apart, fighting one another. Everyone had a secret agenda. Everyone would use anyone to get what they wanted."
His stare across the water had gone hard around the edges. "Me? I just wound up in the line of fire one too many times for my liking."
Less than the truth. It glossed over one very specific moment, the moment of realization, when the pieces of the puzzle were forcibly shoved into his head by a digital entity with a death wish.
But that was just making it more complicated than it needed to be.