...I don't know that I can, for sure. At least, in my memory... I was told my feelings for someone were scripted and planned. And I was certainly manipulated into some things, by how they fed us memories at particular points.

Well, I like to think everything I feel and decide now is my own will, but... what does that even mean, really?

[hope Shrike wanted an afternoon interlude of existential horror over the bond. It's low-key, at least; Glory has this in the background all the time, and there's only so long a person can feel that before it hits a kind of dull acceptance]