"Well, hallucinating instead of getting the happy pills was not pleasant although I suppose her drugs working properly would have been less pleasant in the long run." God, what would she have done to him? He likes to flatter himself that she would have kept him around, forgiven him, but he just doesn't know. She had made him a Saint in her own canon so there was some affection there.

He snorted softly, giving Steve an incredulous look. "Hey! I'm not bad on the best of days, but no. I mean, probably. Theoretically prolongued exposure should have made me capable of accessing the Cloud with my brain. But I cut the implant out of my head and apparently caused too much damage."