"She's an older lady, right? Maybe it was just far too much for her to handle and it was easier to put that part away than anything else. I know a lot of people would prefer to just....excise parts of their own personalities and memories. Honestly, aside from the side-effects that panned out to be more or less detrimental, it was a pretty tidy way of handling it. Maybe it was the only way she knew? Whatever the case, I don't...think it's that bad. You were more aggressive, but you weren't bad," Declan assured Aoba, nodding slightly. Ghost glanced at Ren, sharing some unspoken disagreement, but it Declan thought it was alright, Ghost wasn't going to protest. The man could take care of himself, at the end of the day.

"Warning you about it probably would have made the medication less effective. Sort of like trying different foods. Like if a person says they don't like some type of ingredient, but someone else cooks it specially without telling them what it is and they like it suddenly. But if they were told at the beginning what was in the food they wouldn't try it. If you'd been told about it, you'd think about it too much and probably make it happen more. Without knowing about it, you can just take the medicine, shut it off, and have done."