[Which had been a joke, but they'd played to his ego and he'd bought into it. That's a little hard to admit, but he figures the statement is self-explanatory without him having to go into details. He shrugs.]
And that they'd blow up the Earth if I didn't come with them.
[He knows now, however, that it's a months-long process and he could've said no and fought back--but hindsight is twenty-twenty, and there's no guarantee all the tech isn't already on Earth, ready and waiting to go.]
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[Which had been a joke, but they'd played to his ego and he'd bought into it. That's a little hard to admit, but he figures the statement is self-explanatory without him having to go into details. He shrugs.]
And that they'd blow up the Earth if I didn't come with them.
[He knows now, however, that it's a months-long process and he could've said no and fought back--but hindsight is twenty-twenty, and there's no guarantee all the tech isn't already on Earth, ready and waiting to go.]