Tieria remained silent as the earlier events slowly came back to him. None of it made any sense. It was like watching two completely different people, or at least, some strange, alternate universe versions of themselves. A feeling of dread settled over him. He needed to run a diagnostic as soon as possible, it almost seemed as if he'd been tampered with.

...but a malfunction would only account for his behaviour, not Setsuna's. Unless he'd just been humouring him. That didn't add up either, it didn't appear to be in Setsuna's nature to play along with something like this.

"...Setsuna, I. I. I think there's something wrong. I need to return immediately, I need to check with Veda, I..."