Huh . . . I never thought of it like that before . . .
[It takes him a moment to get, too. But he thinks it through, chewing a little on his lip (and its piercing), and it makes sense:]
You mean, it's not so much like "I'm totally fine with being treated like shit now by this place and its creepy overlords," but more like "I figured out last time how to deal with this crap so I'm not gonna lose this time either." Yeah, that's better. That feels way better than "getting used to it." —When you put it like that, the more they test us, the better we're gonna get at outsmarting them, huh? I hope they've got that in mind! . . . Actually, I don't! Let 'em not even think about that, for all I care!
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[It takes him a moment to get, too. But he thinks it through, chewing a little on his lip (and its piercing), and it makes sense:]
You mean, it's not so much like "I'm totally fine with being treated like shit now by this place and its creepy overlords," but more like "I figured out last time how to deal with this crap so I'm not gonna lose this time either." Yeah, that's better. That feels way better than "getting used to it." —When you put it like that, the more they test us, the better we're gonna get at outsmarting them, huh? I hope they've got that in mind! . . . Actually, I don't! Let 'em not even think about that, for all I care!