"He's met with me. I ... don't have any clear idea of what kind of impression I made."

She listens to the rest, then frowns in consideration. "If I understand the order of events correctly, Sparkles -- or rather, the being that eventually became both Sparkles and our captor -- was held prisoner and tortured long before 'here' even existed. This place represents its attempt to escape all of that. I admit I don't understand how the division between them happened, but ... I'm not certain either aspect of him is likelier to come to care about what we want or deserve."