['It's not the drugs' Levi says and while Shinjiro mostly believes himself he has to wonder if the intensity of Levi's response has something to do with him jonesing.

'It' is hiding something he claims, and Shinjiro had to stop and try to figure out what could possibly be 'It'. Just another type of 'Them' he assumes. It feel ridiculous, crouching down to listen carefully to the conspiratorial whispers of a guy Shinjiro knows is hooked and high way more often than himself but--

There's something that rings true in it, too. Maybe its because it's something he'd like to believe. Something is happening as opposed to them just losing it. So he nods carefully at Levi's attempts to explain it.]

...Like we aren't meant to. But then we do anyway and we get-- whatever the hell it is. Visions or shit.

['visions' feels reductive to say, but he doesn't have a better word. It's like information with no context deposited directly into their mind, shorting and stalling out everything else for a just a moment. Like staring too hard for too long at a magic eye puzzle until you can almost make out something the artist never intended.]

...What would even be able to do that, though?