“What? How do you know that?” Zaile moved the conversation onto the relay in Lexx’s mind.
“-They- didn’t have a choice. Isn’t that the way things are?” Lexx paced angrily within a nothingness of swirling reds and violets. “There’s always someone pulling the strings, isn’t there? And when you don’t cooperate … they cut the strings. I’m not going to be a puppet. I’m not going to be manipulated. I’m going to do what I want to do.”
Lexx walked around Zaile, who was staring at him wide eyed as though everything Lexx was saying was new. It was true. These things were things that Zaile had been doing to Lexx and others.
“I don’t need any secret organization putting everything on my shoulders. I just want all of you to just leave me alone.” Lexx scowled.
