Zechs sat down, near the offered coffee, but didn't take it. He raised an eyebrow at Hakuba. "I am not tired in the least, yet I thank you. However, how would a caffeinated beverage be conductive towards sleep?"
He wasn't experienced with programming or software, beyond knowing how to use it for tasks he was familiar with. But if the ZERO system changed, Zechs would be able to tell. He was far too intimately familiar with the program and its effects to be fooled. Yet on its surface, the ZERO system appeared to be quite benign. It was easy to underestimate the effects it could have on a person's mind. How easily a human could be driven insane by it.
"Indeed? I had managed to converse with the Noah, Debitt, before you had arrived."
Zechs' face tensed. He wanted to avoid this subject. If they didn't, he might become sick from worry. "Mikk is alive, and apparently sane, in Debitt's time. I have gathered that is a few months into the man's future. Yet it was not prudent for me to gather more information from that source. Not without arousing suspicion."
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He wasn't experienced with programming or software, beyond knowing how to use it for tasks he was familiar with. But if the ZERO system changed, Zechs would be able to tell. He was far too intimately familiar with the program and its effects to be fooled. Yet on its surface, the ZERO system appeared to be quite benign. It was easy to underestimate the effects it could have on a person's mind. How easily a human could be driven insane by it.
"Indeed? I had managed to converse with the Noah, Debitt, before you had arrived."
Zechs' face tensed. He wanted to avoid this subject. If they didn't, he might become sick from worry. "Mikk is alive, and apparently sane, in Debitt's time. I have gathered that is a few months into the man's future. Yet it was not prudent for me to gather more information from that source. Not without arousing suspicion."