"Yeah, I'm not convinced it'll just go away. Not with your lantern looking like that. Whatever role your memories have in giving it its own life in your head, that's not the full reason why it's there."

As in, don't blame yourself for this one, man. It's no more Soldat's fault than if they were hallucinating the Asset as a separate person thanks to some trick by the green-eyes. There are things here that take their thoughts and fears and give them faces. Make them tangible. Give them real weight. That's not brain stuff, that's something external.

"All that aside, though, do you think you're getting better? Since you've been here?"