[ it's long enough that something becomes a sickening surety in his mind, about what is going through Jasper's mind, not in details so much as the listlessness. It's telling. He'd made a study of those he'd lived with all this time. Knew perhaps not well, not all, but particulars. Jasper was... animate. He did not lend himself so much to the empty quiet stares Corvo knew he'd had a long habit of.
So he scrambles, and he knows he's not good at this. These shiny false veneers of normality on the premise that everything would be alright, because he knew it wouldn't be. Things were never going to get better. Not for them, not in this place. But the boy had a assessment soon, and it wouldn't serve him to be mind half fractured on dark slippery things with too infinite eyes. So it's the same as with Terra, he pushed forward in a brusque almost commanding tone.
Here, he means, keep the mind here, don't think, don't, there was the edge of the map and over that great unknown space lay monsters. ] I won't go easy on you simply because you're rovermate, you'll learn infiltration whether you like it or not.
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So he scrambles, and he knows he's not good at this. These shiny false veneers of normality on the premise that everything would be alright, because he knew it wouldn't be. Things were never going to get better. Not for them, not in this place. But the boy had a assessment soon, and it wouldn't serve him to be mind half fractured on dark slippery things with too infinite eyes. So it's the same as with Terra, he pushed forward in a brusque almost commanding tone.
Here, he means, keep the mind here, don't think, don't, there was the edge of the map and over that great unknown space lay monsters. ] I won't go easy on you simply because you're rovermate, you'll learn infiltration whether you like it or not.