"Right, so, I'm pretty massively traumatized by the whole massive Cheliax gaslighting operation and rather a large part of me does not think that anything on this next layer of reality is real. It seems to me like inside that layer of reality we are forming something like a friendship, but I'm not sure I'm going to be able to let myself feel that because my brain is constantly firing 'Hey if you start liking this guy he's also going to turn out to not be real, and then that will hurt when you inevitably find out that this layer of reality was also a lie and you have to leave it.'"
"Wanna try forming a friendship under those somewhat adverse conditions?"