The moment he'd first met Oz, he had had difficulty seeing him, his own poor vision aside. Mad Hatter had sensed a distortion around the boy, marking him as being more than just an ordinary illegal contractor. With each tick of Oz's incuse, he could feel the distortion becoming stronger...
Until they arrived at Exsilium, and it all stopped (but for one notable exception). Here, in this place, Oz seems to have exchanged one fate for another. Oz (and everyone) lived constantly under the threat of immediate extermination at Exsilium. Now that threat is not so immediate, but it is no less inexorable.
Tick. ]
Relative to something as big as this [ He nods towards the nebula ], I suppose nothing does.
[ He'd kept the truth of Oz's existence away from him, rationalizing that it didn't matter in a place so far from home. But the reality of Oz's own rapidly approaching fate: that he cannot keep quiet about. ]
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The moment he'd first met Oz, he had had difficulty seeing him, his own poor vision aside. Mad Hatter had sensed a distortion around the boy, marking him as being more than just an ordinary illegal contractor. With each tick of Oz's incuse, he could feel the distortion becoming stronger...
Until they arrived at Exsilium, and it all stopped (but for one notable exception). Here, in this place, Oz seems to have exchanged one fate for another. Oz (and everyone) lived constantly under the threat of immediate extermination at Exsilium. Now that threat is not so immediate, but it is no less inexorable.
Tick. ]
Relative to something as big as this [ He nods towards the nebula ], I suppose nothing does.
[ He'd kept the truth of Oz's existence away from him, rationalizing that it didn't matter in a place so far from home. But the reality of Oz's own rapidly approaching fate: that he cannot keep quiet about. ]
We're like mayflies in comparison, hm?
[ Although probably Oz knows already. ]