[The compulsion to dispute that claim is strong, but Sycamore has already considered how Lysandre would respond; he's expecting - and received - the exact same answer he got when he raised those regrets in their initial meeting, so it makes no sense to keep going back and forth. What does make sense is probing deeper, taking this conversation down the logical path that Lysandre's viewpoint implies.]
...will you tell me, then?
[It makes him wish they'd just kept bantering about meals, but...this is what he wanted, isn't it? A chance to get the answers Lysandre took with him when he disappeared into that Geosenge base.]
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...will you tell me, then?
[It makes him wish they'd just kept bantering about meals, but...this is what he wanted, isn't it? A chance to get the answers Lysandre took with him when he disappeared into that Geosenge base.]
When it all started.