No. No, I'm not okay. [His voice is soft, but it's getting faster and higher-pitched as he speaks.] I went to bed, then I woke up with a woman I've never seen before telling me that she's my mother and that I'm supposed to go on an adventure with a creature that is not biologically viable which happens to be following me around. And now I've had eight people message me on a device I've never seen before, telling me that it's not a trick, and that this is real. So clearly, either they're all in on the joke, or I am having a psychotic break.
[Reid is taking this particularly badly because he spent his whole childhood watching his mother spiral into complete madness and knowing that there was a very high chance that he would be following her there one day. He doesn't want this. He doesn't want his mind to break apart. He doesn't want to scream at things no one else can see while his loved ones have to watch. He doesn't want to be institutionalized. He doesn't want to be the ghost his mother is. He is absolutely terrified that his eyes, ears, and even mind are all deceiving him.]
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[Reid is taking this particularly badly because he spent his whole childhood watching his mother spiral into complete madness and knowing that there was a very high chance that he would be following her there one day. He doesn't want this. He doesn't want his mind to break apart. He doesn't want to scream at things no one else can see while his loved ones have to watch. He doesn't want to be institutionalized. He doesn't want to be the ghost his mother is. He is absolutely terrified that his eyes, ears, and even mind are all deceiving him.]