That flicker of an expression is enough to convince Number 6 not to mention it again. Or, perhaps not unless they both have a drink in hand. While the outcomes of those wars have ultimately been victory, it was not without a great cost. One he felt personally, too.

"You and I share a similar temperament, it seems, along with our place of origin."

Before this, the best he was ever possibly willing to entertain is that a person might have a heightened intuition that some could call a sixth sense. But even that was a stretch. Now, he's faced with quite a bit more.

"I cannot deny my own senses, no matter how surreal."