"Well, look, it's more like this..." He sighs, spreading his hands, because truth to be told he really isn't the most trusting nature. He's suspicious of just about everything they have encountered, but... "We've got something that can plant that number in our heads, that can connect our doodles or class notes or whatever to some kind of network, that's probably messing with your sense of smell and putting memories in my head..."

He makes a small, helpless noise as he shrugs. "With or without the network, seems to me like whoever's behind it are gonna be able to watch us just fine. I mean, how do we know we're not right now? That sounds paranoid as shit, but think about it. The network's just about the only useful we've got out of this so far. We might as well use it."

The silly thing about Fay is that he genuinely believes he's dumb as dirt, but he's kind of wrong about that.