"Starting with the most personally relevant stuff and working out from there is probably easiest, so..." Adam smiled wryly.
"Michael and I had a long time to bond, as you know. And we actually did. He's surprisingly not the shitty conversationalist you'd expect. Took a little while to get him to warm up to me, but..." A shrug. "It was what it was. We wound up bonding. Reaching an agreement, after a while. Timeshare agreement, if you will. He's actually pretty okay with letting me out -- and not suppressing me when I'm on the inside. I can push through to get out sometimes if I need to. It's not easy and it hurts like hell for both of us, but it's a thing."
He took a deep breath; this was where it was going to start getting fucked up and awkward, because he wasn't sure what Sam knew. He'd done digging while waiting for his brother and it seemed like people didn't always know the same stuff. "I didn't end up here straight from hell. I'd already gotten out of there. Someone threw the gates open and everything either got out or had the ability to."