Heiji glanced off to the space on the other side of Snake, still not looking straight at him. "It ain't just that. I really... we don't know all that much about this place, even though we've been here for a while.

"I thought maybe we could learn somethin' about this place by comparing notes. Any tiny bit of information might make a difference. Whether there are other people here, whether there are other experiments goin' on in the same facility... it's not trivial. It matters."