"You're not the only person I've met who's struggled with adjusting to these organicisms," he offers, "many of our kind were wholly inorganic in the fairest lands, machines or beings of stone or glass. I knew a Tin Man once who forgot he had to eat for a week and ended up admitted to hospital after collapsing in public. But, ultimately, having organic functions only means you have those functions. You are wholly and entirely whoever and whatever you proclaim yourself to be."