"I knew that you were someone who had been shaped. That was...unfortunately very obvious. Especially to someone else who's been there."

Security laces its fingers with Max's.

"When I first got here, it kept hitting me in the face, that there were people who could do this sort of thing to other people. To those who had been people to begin with. Because of course something like me didn't count, I wasn't human so of course I didn't get treated like a person. But this sort of..." Call it what it is, for once "...exploitation is wrong, regardless of who it's done to."