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Xeno: “I am a man of science. I do not succumb to irrational sentimentality, nor do I entertain illusions when separated from my personnel.”
Also Xeno (during those 5 years while Stanley was petrified): *silently lighting cigarettes in an empty ashtray like incense, just letting them burn down to fill the cold lab with the smell of tobacco and gunpowder so he can pretend his knight is standing right behind him*
Xeno: “This is merely a chemical calibration of the local atmospheric properties to optimize my cognitive focus. It has zero emotional significance. Do not look at me.”













