[ Vasiliy responds with a small, wry smile. ] Sometimes. Most of them are just afraid or upset. [ He's had his share of combative patients. ] Like you.
[ After a brief pause: ]
Tokyo, though. I have never been to Japan. I was thousands of kilometers away. That is probably why I have not heard of your Future Foundation. It is a young people's group?
[ He's picturing something like the Komsomol—he never had the chance to be involved in that sort of thing, but its absence wasn't too much of a hindrance. Or maybe it was—maybe he would have been more than an interrogator, or something different entirely, had that been on his personnel file. He supposes he'll never really know. ]
no subject
[ After a brief pause: ]
Tokyo, though. I have never been to Japan. I was thousands of kilometers away. That is probably why I have not heard of your Future Foundation. It is a young people's group?
[ He's picturing something like the Komsomol—he never had the chance to be involved in that sort of thing, but its absence wasn't too much of a hindrance. Or maybe it was—maybe he would have been more than an interrogator, or something different entirely, had that been on his personnel file. He supposes he'll never really know. ]