Mm. [ That's... understandable, actually. She initially made it sound worse than it seems like it actually was, as though she was purposefully looking to get laid instead of fight, but... ] I got caught in a room like that too. Twice, actually. Only I didn't end up horny. More like...

[ He pauses, staring up at the ceiling, eyes shifting as though the wording is written up there. ]

... Bloodlust, I guess. All I wanted to do was kill. Thought that's what the Oracle wanted of me, too. Someone else was able to get me out of that room; then I helped someone else out of another one later. Didn't really need to do anything after that.

[ Like, sure, he would have fought and tried to kill some Meris regardless — but that need was gone. ]

So I kinda know what you mean. Or at least, I know that it wasn't as easy as just walking out of there. Nobody who'd give you shit for it would know what it was like, though. Just gotta keep your chin up.

[ Because he assumes that was the extent of it. That she would've fought for Zenith otherwise, but some of those rooms were fucking awful, made it particularly difficult.

His eyes slide shut, breath a little tight as she works on him. With the part of the body he's getting tattooed it's unavoidable. ]

We can still take the next three. Maybe find a way to take back the other two they got, too. [ A beat. ] Maybe get back at them a little sooner than that.

[ Because somebody's got a mission~ ]