'If the Master can just find a solution, then all this suffering can end. People outside won't have to die anymore.'
'More importantly, he was afraid. He was afraid that some of the people around him might have mutated as well.'
'He wasn't afraid of death, but of having to turn on his former comrades.'
He was attached to every member of Caeluna Base and didn't want to see them reach the point of fighting one another.
'Perhaps he could act without hesitation against people he didn't know well. But what if, one day, those people were the ones he knew best, like Black Swan or Shane Lawrence? Could he still bring himself to do it?'
'Even if he could bring himself to do it, the pain would be immense. He might even spend the rest of his life consumed by guilt, and he didn't want to become that person.'
That was why he now truly, desperately hoped his master had a solution.
