[That is indeed a problem even for people who don't have obsessive personalities. The more one focuses upon trying not to think about something, the more difficult it is to actually do.
[Nevertheless, he's still trying to focus on the conversation at hand. Much more comfortable. Hopefully will keep out any mental images he would rather not have.]
People do that. [Different sense of the word or not, the desire to protect such a person is still the same, isn't it? He absorbs this information, thinks on it.] Concocting a story about the Echo being something physical would not make sense if it were a memory; a memory would be easier to lie about. If there was no visible physical change . . .
[Trailing off for just a second, here. No, get out of his head, mental image of how that was determined. Okay. Gone.] Then that would leave an object as the remaining possibility.
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[Nevertheless, he's still trying to focus on the conversation at hand. Much more comfortable. Hopefully will keep out any mental images he would rather not have.]
People do that. [Different sense of the word or not, the desire to protect such a person is still the same, isn't it? He absorbs this information, thinks on it.] Concocting a story about the Echo being something physical would not make sense if it were a memory; a memory would be easier to lie about. If there was no visible physical change . . .
[Trailing off for just a second, here. No, get out of his head, mental image of how that was determined. Okay. Gone.] Then that would leave an object as the remaining possibility.