Particularly toward the beginning, Venom had let Miller and Ocelot run the show, listening to their guidance or picking between their arguments about various issues. Kaz can't help but feel like he'd lost the majority of those fights, but that's also because over time Venom had come into his own, found his moral center and then kept to it fiercely. He'd spared Quiet and even worked alongside her; he'd banished Huey instead of giving him the death he deserved...

But somewhere along the way, Kaz had come to respect Venom too. He wasn't the true Big Boss, but he'd managed to fill those shoes all the same, which hadn't been an easy task. Granted, it had helped that Venom had bought into the lie. He'd been used by all of them, in the end.

Far be it from Snake to actually face any sort of outpouring of emotion head-on. He has no idea how to do that, and so he shies away from it instead. Kaz could push further, but at this point he knows that it would fall on deaf ears, that he'll never be able to get through that thick skull.

"Settled," he echoes, taking another look around them as his surroundings come into focus once again. His vision isn't completely clouded by the man in front of him now, although it's not like anything has been forgiven. "What is this place?" he asks, with a tinge of weariness. Obviously Snake hadn't known Miller would be brought here, so it could be that both of them are captives.