[Setsuna was right. Tieria didn't question VEDA often. He had about the Trinities. And then later, when he found out that Ribbons had been feeding it corrupted information to influence its decisions. If there was one thing Tieria had learned, it was that VEDA, as powerful as it was, was still just a computer, and the suggestions, plans and decisions it provided were only as good as the information it was given.
It had been a difficult lesson to learn.
So now, Tieria wasn't sure. Had VEDA seen something in him he couldn't see now? Or was he picked simply because of his association with Setsuna and their defeat of Ribbons?]
I don't know. Hiling is still so unpredictable. And after the things she and Ribbons have done, even here, I don't know if I will be able to trust even this truce. I know we have to try. That's why I am doing it. But I am uncertain of how long it will last.
[Revive... Tieria almost felt like they were the most similar. Revive seemed to want to learn and grow the same way Tieria had. But, also like Tieria, he was clinging to familiar. He knew Revive still spent time with Hiling. Likely, that was why Anew was so angry with him. He had hoped somewhere that they could reconcile beyond the need for Revive to cut ties to all that he knew while in an unfamiliar place, but Tieria couldn't understand why Anew was so unforgiving on that to her own twin. He didn't expect her to forgive Hiling, but Revive... Hadn't they been trying? Why had that changed?]
I... I envy Anew a little. Perhaps, she might be the most human of all of us. She got to live that way, without having the burden of knowing what she was to start with. I always knew I was different, that I would never be like any of you, whether I wanted to or not.
[Which, admittedly, he didn't in the beginning. He was there for the Plan, and that was all. They would fulfill their purpose and that would be it. What he was to do after that wasn't ever a concern. But, in his mind, they hadn't succeeded. There had been too many losses. The world was still in turmoil and was unified under an oppressive and secretive government. Peace could not prevail in those conditions.
But being told that he was a contradiction to his own existence by continuing to fight had been the hardest thing to hear. His entire life revolved around and was because of the Plan. Without it, he wouldn't even have an existence to begin with.]
If I am to remain a part of VEDA in any way, I do not know if I will be able to hold on to anything that I have learned while outside of it.
[He almost felt like any humanity he had gained in those five years away from VEDA was slipping away from him after rejoining with it. While he had initially been happy that he had come home, so to speak, and happy that he had been able to use being an Innovade to save his family, he felt the separation from them keenly now. Two years living as a computer program would do that, he supposed.]