[There's an impulse, scratching at his chest to ask how old he was, where the samples came from, where he was grown and trained. But.. what would he even do with the knowledge? Prevent Mark from ever happening? He found that to taste sour. Wage an expensive war with Jackson's Whole that he would never be able to account for or explain? ... what if he goes back with the knowledge. The understanding the Mark exists though... and doesn't have anything he can do about it.
The conundrum weighs heavily, teetering without any answer. Like a political tangle with no right path. Instead, he asks,]
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[There's an impulse, scratching at his chest to ask how old he was, where the samples came from, where he was grown and trained. But.. what would he even do with the knowledge? Prevent Mark from ever happening? He found that to taste sour. Wage an expensive war with Jackson's Whole that he would never be able to account for or explain? ... what if he goes back with the knowledge. The understanding the Mark exists though... and doesn't have anything he can do about it.
The conundrum weighs heavily, teetering without any answer. Like a political tangle with no right path. Instead, he asks,]
What do you want to be accustomed to?