It took Shadow a second to understand. It couldn't possibly be a random question to throw into the conversation. While it didn't quite explain everything, Espio's little question made everything suddenly click. It was more than enough to simply imagine what it was all about.

Shadow's frustration wasn't entirely gone, but he certainly didn't look as angry anymore. If anything he looked a little uncertain. The whole idea wasn't really easy to process. It only raised even more questions, questions he didn't know he wanted the answers to.

"I am." Theories at least, that was enough, right?