Right? If I hadn't immediately run into someone I already knew from Hadriel, I would never have agreed to go to the safehouse in the first place. I trusted their judgement that it would be okay, but only because I'd known them for years, and I still hated the whole experience.
[If he'd arrived here and it had just been total strangers, they would've had to use the compulsion drug's effects to get him to go with them, because no way is he going to let a bunch of strangers tell him 'oh it'll be fine we'll let you out in a few days' and trust that. What a thing to ask--or expect, considering there's no asking--of people who just found themselves in another world after being drugged and operated on, not to mention whatever experiences they may have gone through in their own worlds.
Of course, the weirdest thing to Lance is that hardly anyone else seems to find this whole way of doing things strange, so when Ellie agrees it's a bit of a relief. No matter how confident he usually is in knowing what's right, that can still be a bit rattled when he finds himself in an extreme minority on something, especially when 'it's wrong to hold people against their will for days' is something he'd expect to be pretty widely agreed upon.]
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Date: 2020-12-26 05:41 am (UTC)[If he'd arrived here and it had just been total strangers, they would've had to use the compulsion drug's effects to get him to go with them, because no way is he going to let a bunch of strangers tell him 'oh it'll be fine we'll let you out in a few days' and trust that. What a thing to ask--or expect, considering there's no asking--of people who just found themselves in another world after being drugged and operated on, not to mention whatever experiences they may have gone through in their own worlds.
Of course, the weirdest thing to Lance is that hardly anyone else seems to find this whole way of doing things strange, so when Ellie agrees it's a bit of a relief. No matter how confident he usually is in knowing what's right, that can still be a bit rattled when he finds himself in an extreme minority on something, especially when 'it's wrong to hold people against their will for days' is something he'd expect to be pretty widely agreed upon.]