He's seen the root systems of so many of Maxwell's creations. On the other hand, Maxwell combined flowers and butterflies into the same life cycle, so it's really just trading one inadequacy for another.

Wilson catches some kind of look crossing Darcy's face, but fails to grasp the significance, except that it's not the kind of horrified or checked-out expression that heralds the end of a conversation about a particular topic. So it can't be that bad.

"From what I gathered, it was really boring before that. There was nothing for him to do, nothing for Them to watch..." The emphasis is very concentrated on that one pronoun and then he trails off and stares at the wall for a second. Then he continues, with awkward haste. "So he had to put some stuff in it! And some people who fit a weirdly persnickety set of criteria!"