[There is no easy explanation for Sasuke, for the reasons behind why his immediate trust and belief is so deep, and all he can offer are words and ideas. The barest pieces of possibility. He understands it may not be accepted. Were it not for his brother, Itachi would be of the same mind: that this space, and this dream, are temporary and imagined, perhaps his mind's last grasp of illusion before it falls at last to eternal sleep.]
I cannot prove it to you, nor convince you of this truth.
[Once, he would have been capable of it - the ability to reprogram someone's mind, to steer them in another direction, to bend the shape of their perspective. To break their will. But that was left behind, in whatever ghost of himself still existed, distilled by the past.]
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[There is no easy explanation for Sasuke, for the reasons behind why his immediate trust and belief is so deep, and all he can offer are words and ideas. The barest pieces of possibility. He understands it may not be accepted. Were it not for his brother, Itachi would be of the same mind: that this space, and this dream, are temporary and imagined, perhaps his mind's last grasp of illusion before it falls at last to eternal sleep.]
I cannot prove it to you, nor convince you of this truth.
[Once, he would have been capable of it - the ability to reprogram someone's mind, to steer them in another direction, to bend the shape of their perspective. To break their will. But that was left behind, in whatever ghost of himself still existed, distilled by the past.]
But it is as I said.