Of course. It's... only a natural human reaction, after all... to prefer being in control of your own mind.
[Yes, it's only that and not some weird personal phobia of his or anything of the sort. Right. At least, Kain is trying to downplay this, because now in the back of his mind is a deep sense of fear. If he doesn't conform to this world's ways, is that what will become of him? It seems he's stuck between a rock and a very uncomfortably hard place. Ugh.]
You... you mean to... You mean for us to try that? Right here?
[It takes him a bit by surprise that he's supposed to just up and try this, with a complete stranger at that. But now that they've just got done discussing this whole mind control punishment thing... he's seeing that he probably doesn't have a choice.]
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[Yes, it's only that and not some weird personal phobia of his or anything of the sort. Right. At least, Kain is trying to downplay this, because now in the back of his mind is a deep sense of fear. If he doesn't conform to this world's ways, is that what will become of him? It seems he's stuck between a rock and a very uncomfortably hard place. Ugh.]
You... you mean to... You mean for us to try that? Right here?
[It takes him a bit by surprise that he's supposed to just up and try this, with a complete stranger at that. But now that they've just got done discussing this whole mind control punishment thing... he's seeing that he probably doesn't have a choice.]