Clearly someone needed to show Irvine it could be all math too, but it wouldn't be Zell.

"Yeah," Zell replied in a rather unusual subdued voice. But then his voiced raised, obviously forcing himself to try sounding a little more normal. "Ah, I've been here before. I mean, I've been here the whole time, sorta. For the past year and a half or so. I just wasn't... awake for it all." If he could call it that. Being asleep sure was a lot easier to take than being in that crystal stasis.

"The people here are nice," he agreed. "There's still some bad guys to worry about. Imprisoning and torturing and stuff, but there's a lot of us to fight against it!" On top of the whole crystalization thing.