Book Five, Chapter 48: Therapy
Lila reappeared not too long after Andrew showed up.
She was nervous, but I could see in her eyes that she wanted to please—that she knew how important it was for us to trust her.
I tried my best to wipe away my preconceptions and my pent-up frustration with watching her surrogate screw things up constantly.
Ironically, I felt closer to trusting her than Michael and maybe even closer than Andrew—and he was a very reasonable fellow.
It required a bit of contortion for a person to wrap their mind around Project Rewind, so I may have been better prepared to deal with the realities of sacrificing fellow players for the greater good.
Michael went off to one of the rooms to relax. He didn’t actually have a room at the boarding house because his character lived in Eastern Carousel, but nobody was going to say anything about it. The last I saw him, he was lying back on a bed without having folded back the sheets, staring up at the ceiling, trying to hide the look of annoyance on his face.
We passed by his room and continued onward until we found a nice, secluded hallway and another room with a couch and some chairs. An NPC was in there reading a book, but Andrew politely explained that he needed the room for a therapy session, and the NPC bowed his head and left.
Lila, having been the target of Andrew's Psychiatrist tropes before, lay down on the couch. Andrew took a seat near her, and I took a seat far away where I could see her, but she couldn’t see me without turning her head.
And then the session began.