It's fine. [It was an answer he'd expected on all counts. Lying and saying 'it's not that bad' was easier than the truth, in no small part because even the truth itself was painful in this case.]
...I've never liked it, I only ever thought it was necessary. What I specialize in is logic and reason--strategic thinking, things like that. But people aren't rational and human emotion isn't logical. So I'd never been able to figure out how to form friendships with other people; if I can't understand them, clearly they could never understand me.
[He took his sunglasses off, mindlessly fidgeting with them. 'You can't see my real self, so you could never understand me-']
I guess that's what my Shadow was saying. I wanted friends, but didn't know--no, I was afraid of getting to know other people. So I only asked you that because...I see you on your own all the time, and I guess that I was worried someone else might be the same.
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...I've never liked it, I only ever thought it was necessary. What I specialize in is logic and reason--strategic thinking, things like that. But people aren't rational and human emotion isn't logical. So I'd never been able to figure out how to form friendships with other people; if I can't understand them, clearly they could never understand me.
[He took his sunglasses off, mindlessly fidgeting with them. 'You can't see my real self, so you could never understand me-']
I guess that's what my Shadow was saying. I wanted friends, but didn't know--no, I was afraid of getting to know other people. So I only asked you that because...I see you on your own all the time, and I guess that I was worried someone else might be the same.