The realization hits him like a brick to the face. Somehow he hadn't imagined -- hadn't anticipated, that there would be others here who weren't human. Created, this person says. Like the Plants back in No Man's Land, the ones developed to benefit humanity.
But this person is independent, like himself. Like Nai. And even though they're different in that sense, found already born within the container of another Plant .... in the face of the possibility of being understood, even just a little bit, Vash freezes up. Doesn't confess what he is. Many reasons to withhold information indeed.]
It must have been difficult to learn you'd had it withheld from you.
[It had been a withholding of information that had doomed Rem, in the end, and all the humans who were lost in the Fall. Nai had never been able to forgive it.]
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The realization hits him like a brick to the face. Somehow he hadn't imagined -- hadn't anticipated, that there would be others here who weren't human. Created, this person says. Like the Plants back in No Man's Land, the ones developed to benefit humanity.
But this person is independent, like himself. Like Nai. And even though they're different in that sense, found already born within the container of another Plant .... in the face of the possibility of being understood, even just a little bit, Vash freezes up. Doesn't confess what he is. Many reasons to withhold information indeed.]
It must have been difficult to learn you'd had it withheld from you.
[It had been a withholding of information that had doomed Rem, in the end, and all the humans who were lost in the Fall. Nai had never been able to forgive it.]
Did you ever have a chance to ask him why?