Because you didn't remember your last stay here? Was that an anomaly, or do we have more examples of the same thing?

[ if he's being honest, he doesn't like the idea that any of this might not matter, or that somehow he isn't in control of his own fate. for however else he was raised, since he helped bring down the last of the Philosophers, he's chosen his path of his own free will.

he's made it clear that this future isn't the one he wanted for any of us.

yet again, there's another crack in his ever-calm facade as a flash of rage passes over him. what the hell else did he think was going to happen?! but, yet again, he forces that rage down, because he really doesn't know anything about Miller's involvement one way or another. he just suspects, based on their last conversation, and what little he's learned from Venom. he might also be letting his own dislike of the man get in the way of his better reasoning.

and letting blind emotion get in the way of the logical truth had never done any of them (least of all Miller) any good. ]

I'll want to talk to him about this.

[ a pause, before clarifying. ]

And just talk to him.

[ he is occasionally capable of doing that, when the time calls for it. ]