"Yeah."

"I think backlashes are more - coherent with themselves, than, 'sometimes you think everything is your fault and sometimes you think nothing at all'? That's weird? You really don't remember anything?"

"I remember what was happening? I guess I was thinking somewhat but not coherently? I thought that I liked the things that were happening and wanted more of them and it didn't occur to me to think of anything else because there was just... so much and it was so confusing and didn't make sense. And what did make sense was taking actions about the things being nice."

"I guess that coheres a little. If it just makes you weirdly - self-centered - so if things are bad you think that's your fault and if they're good then that's the only thing that matters -? Does that sound right?"

"I... maybe? I was not thinking about things other than myself and some of that could have been backlash. Some of that could also have been me being a terrible person or my brain being overwhelmed by sudden mind control from one direction and then another wave of mind control from the other."

"There's more mind control? Besides backlash?"

"The guiding?"

"Guiding isn't mind control! It's decreasing backlash and it feels nice for the backlash to go down, that's all."

"It's really rather a lot of a feeling."

"Yes, but it's just a sensation telling you that it would be healthier not to have so much backlash."

"Where my backlash is the feeling full of myself thing that you said you noticed?"

"That's my guess, yeah."

"It's not very obvious to me that that's going on but I understand my brain is doing weird things so I'll defer to you I guess."

"My brain is also doing weird things but I think with the guiding it is mostly not doing delusional things but correct me if I'm wrong."

"I havn't noticed anything where I can tell it's delusional rather than just really weird."

"What's really weird?"

"You said you wanted to do things with me? Which. You could just be having very weird preferences. I guess."

"I like you. You were really nice to me when we were waiting for - Transit - to come get me. Admittedly if it weren't for the guiding I would be more conservative about acting on this but it's not like guiding is a trivial one-off thing I can just ignore for the rest of my life, I think it makes sense to approach things differently because of it."

"I... I really did do a lot of terrible things."

"You have probably not done everything in your life right all the time but I think your backlash probably makes you think you did more bad things than you did."

"I have very clear memories of toppling entire buildings."

"I don't really have context sufficient to comment on the details."

"Transit was there and can probably tell you more."

"I think he is planning to leave us alone until we are... not... guiding all the time."

"...I guess that makes sense. I can call Skitter or someone and they can ask him for you, if you'd like."