[ It's an impossibly difficult place to be in and Sasuke understands that now, sandwiched between the intense and selfish compulsion to indulge in guilt and the need to focus instead on duty, which feels like it'd be letting either of them off too easy. Maybe this is part of his real penance... the fact that there's no easy and straight road to redemption.

Obito got the easier deal by dying and they both know it. ]

I'm not blind to that even if I'm not in the mood to compliment whoever or whatever brought us here. [ It's not the response Obito predicted but it certainly isn't absent a certain level of expected ire. ]

Do what you have to. If you're employing a passive method, you're doing that on your own. I'll be more direct in looking for a way out. [ He anticipates that it might be a while, sure, but he doesn't expect it. He's been trapped in worse places in the past and forced his way through. ]