[Jack doesn't like Genji's attempt to take control of the situation. His body language becomes tense again, though whether it's out of a refusal to let the kid get the upper hand or genuine discomfort is unclear. SEP seems like a lifetime ago--he'd been a different person then, in many ways. A kid. Dragging up the memory of what it was like is harder than he thought, but he has to push through because this might be his Moment with Genji.
He stares at his hands.]
You got sick.
[Not sick like the flu, but an altogether more visceral kind of feeling terrible. A kind they had to downplay, even, if you didn't want to get cut from the program. And since they weren't supposed to exist in the first place, Jack had actively tried not to think about what happened to the soldiers who weren't up to snuff.]
Too much happens too fast and you don't have time to get used to it before they're sticking you again. Remember feeling like I was crawling out of my skin, most days.
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He stares at his hands.]
You got sick.
[Not sick like the flu, but an altogether more visceral kind of feeling terrible. A kind they had to downplay, even, if you didn't want to get cut from the program. And since they weren't supposed to exist in the first place, Jack had actively tried not to think about what happened to the soldiers who weren't up to snuff.]
Too much happens too fast and you don't have time to get used to it before they're sticking you again. Remember feeling like I was crawling out of my skin, most days.