( This is why he thinks Hien would be a good teacher of sentiment. He's clearly got strong feelings in both directions. To someone like Mithrun, it's rather impressive. )

I've been told it's medically impossible for me to make progress, or change. There was a point where my physician suggested the kindest thing they could do was let me die.

( He seems indifferent to this. It doesn't hurt to recall.

The reality is, he feels achingly empty. But what's impossible is impossible, and he lacks the desire to argue with his prognosis.

However. )

... But the people I've met in Fragment are strikingly optimistic, or maybe only curious. Maybe it's because they don't know my circumstances intimately. But the argument is that nothing can be certain until I try it.

It's unlikely that I can improve. ( Regain wanting, likes and dislikes, etc. ) But it's made me curious to know if I can.