"Do you have any questions, Mr. Larkinson? You appear confused at this moment."
What could Ves say to all of this? He had become so overwhelmed by Master Dervidian's change in attitude and unflinching praise of god pilots that he felt as if he was speaking to the wrong person.
Did he mistakenly call it a religious cult?
Had the MTA pulled off a prank where they connected him to a doppelganger of the MTA Master who had no compulsions about spouting nonsense?
Ves even began to suspect that this was all an elaborate ruse!
Perhaps the mechers set up an elaborate and convincing test where they wished to see his reaction towards this sudden and unexpected shift away from science and rationality.
Was this their way of determining whether he held sympathies towards the ideals and methodologies of the Five Scrolls Compact?
If this was the case, then it was all the more important for Ves to retain his reason and good sense!