Mmm...at least here, they're not threatening me with their lives. Even if it's hard, since...they're perfectly okay in this simulation, but in reality I know that's not true.

[The image of them beaten and bloody, locked behind bars, miserable...the threat that something happened to them, that they may not be alive, and he has no way of knowing without murdering someone.....his expression falls, gaze falling with it to watch the ground as they walk.

He wishes they were real...that they were safe. Even if they beat whatever they're supposed to...he'll never see them again. They're possibly dead, and even if they aren't, he is.]

...this is really cruel.