[ Can't believe they are both withholding further commenting about headpatting; this is extremely funny.

Anyway, Void Archives indeed happened to be hinging their next inquiries on straightforward or a bit complex - with a preference towards the latter. Straight-forward questions can provide quite a bit of insight, but they have on a constant basis asked such things of him.

Though they have asked hard-hitting questions before, it hasn't been in quite a situation like this. ]

Yes, something 'scrubbed clean' - in this case, the act that you have committed - while leaving the effects of everything else you have done remaining the very same, except for this "act" itself.