There's a pause, the apertures of his eyes adjusting with a soft whirr before he continues. He likes Ava, but there's still things he doesn't like to disclose. "From experience, it's worse if they haven't lost all sense of identity. If they're still fully conscious and sentient and yet can't resist or stop what they're doing. If they're trapped in such a way, it's better if they're not aware of it."

He shakes his head, not wanting to dwell on that.

"Oh that seems even more likely. And we're being paid in room and board and company scrip like a mining facility from the early Americas."