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[Zero watched as she reacquainted herself with her pets. She was hiding something from him, what it was, he didn't know, but he saw it in the way she averted her eyes away from him. The way she tried to focus the conversation on him rather than what had transpired in her absence. At this point, he didn't even know if she'd been kidnapped, held hostage, any number of things could have happened to her, and yet.... she kept it to herself. Secrets.... How many was she keeping from him? How many had he kept from her?]

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[They couldn't keep going like this. He couldn't, not after everything that had happened in the facility, back in his world.... All the secrets that had come to light... he couldn't live with lies anymore.]

It was easier to take them than to listen to you complain about the mess.