[ hanging around the safehouse after you've learned your autonomy has been drained is never a fun experience. if he hadn't been let out when he had, he would've gone stir crazy. while the outside offered a more invisible box than physical one, it felt bigger. ]

Now, now—don't get all defeatist on me. [ you know, guy he hasn't introduced himself to yet. ] While we've only made a few strides in finding out what this whole thing is about. [ he twirls a finger. ] It doesn't mean that anyone's given up.

Things have just gotten ... ah—complicated is a good word for it.