They've been doing it from the start, I think, we just weren't always aware of the cause. But thinking back, every time those sorts of horrors appeared... it must have been the green-eyes.
[It was about a year ago when they first saw how truly horrendous it could be, wasn't it? He remembers. He had just finished wishing Law a happy birthday across the vastness of space, and then found himself faced so vividly with scenes from his childhood he wishes he didn't remember so clearly. This is much the same, as have been so many times in between - the hospital included. He still hasn't told Law what they made him see there and he never intends to.]
They get in our heads, they read our memories, they display them to us and those around us. And the harder it got for us in the mines, the more we struggled and suffered, the faster and stronger it got. Like it was feeding on our reactions, somehow.
[So how do you stop a thing like that? There's no way to meditate, to empty one's mind and focus on breathing or silence if you're fighting just to stay alive.]
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[It was about a year ago when they first saw how truly horrendous it could be, wasn't it? He remembers. He had just finished wishing Law a happy birthday across the vastness of space, and then found himself faced so vividly with scenes from his childhood he wishes he didn't remember so clearly. This is much the same, as have been so many times in between - the hospital included. He still hasn't told Law what they made him see there and he never intends to.]
They get in our heads, they read our memories, they display them to us and those around us. And the harder it got for us in the mines, the more we struggled and suffered, the faster and stronger it got. Like it was feeding on our reactions, somehow.
[So how do you stop a thing like that? There's no way to meditate, to empty one's mind and focus on breathing or silence if you're fighting just to stay alive.]