[...That was the opposite of what he wanted to hear.]

Your sister and I were stuck in a room not long ago with these unusual mirrors. They kept showing the strangest things, though we could never quite place why those particular images.

[He took a breath and sighed, looking worn out somehow.]

One of them...I saw myself, standing on top of REX and surrounded by a burning Shadow Moses. Laughing--laughing, for god's sake. I'm nothing like Snake, I...I can't be.