[This time not having the black hedgehog look at him while he was speaking didn't bother him either. There was too much that Shadow had been focused on, and Sonic could hardly blame him.]

But it isn't me, Shadow. It's you.

[Yet that wasn't why the Ultimate Life form had asked and it wasn't the response he might have been looking for. Whenever Shadow had asked questions, they were hardly ever posed to him. It was usually the other way around.]

I think you should be askin' yourself why you're resisting at all. Can't give you a decent opinion if I don't know what it is that's holdin' you back.

[It hadn't been his place, nor was it anyone's place, to judge someone else either.]