It reminds me a little of when they all got brainwashed a while ago.
[ The boy frowns as he says that. Clearly he isn't recalling the situation as a very pleasant one - just like this one isn't. It makes him slowly shake his head. ]
But it's still different. They don't seem to be under the influence of anything right now. Or.. if they are, then whatever that 'anything' is isn't showing themselves. [ Whereas the mind flayers definitely were showing themselves back then. Hell, even back home it was never too hard to find out who was behind something, in Inigo's experience. ] It's almost more as if they're.. broken, somehow.
[ He looks over at Akechi, giving the other a half-apologetic case. ]
Though that is a strange thing to say in this case, right? We are talking about people, after all. [ And people don't break.
Yet it's somehow the impression they give off now. Like the locals can't understand anything anymore. Like they keep falling into the same mindless patterns. ]
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[ The boy frowns as he says that. Clearly he isn't recalling the situation as a very pleasant one - just like this one isn't. It makes him slowly shake his head. ]
But it's still different. They don't seem to be under the influence of anything right now. Or.. if they are, then whatever that 'anything' is isn't showing themselves. [ Whereas the mind flayers definitely were showing themselves back then. Hell, even back home it was never too hard to find out who was behind something, in Inigo's experience. ] It's almost more as if they're.. broken, somehow.
[ He looks over at Akechi, giving the other a half-apologetic case. ]
Though that is a strange thing to say in this case, right? We are talking about people, after all. [ And people don't break.
Yet it's somehow the impression they give off now. Like the locals can't understand anything anymore. Like they keep falling into the same mindless patterns. ]