[ filing this information in with what he knows about D already - the story he told him about his father and his genetic experiments, about his view on the world - makes the context click into place. he's too analytical just to leave the details of the memory behind, especially when he's avoiding thinking about his own, especially when the similarities between the two send a chill down his spine.
learning what it's like to be human. learning the way humans feel. the things they do. the careless cruelties he's seen over and over again - the way his own father acted towards the very same subject. it's funny, in a way; only because if their fathers ever met, it would have likely ended in instant murder? that's fine. ]
... And what about you?
[ about that, about what he was trying to teach. he knows, a little, from their previous conversations and from the memory, but he wants to hear him work through it, too. ]
no subject
learning what it's like to be human. learning the way humans feel. the things they do. the careless cruelties he's seen over and over again - the way his own father acted towards the very same subject. it's funny, in a way; only because if their fathers ever met, it would have likely ended in instant murder? that's fine. ]
... And what about you?
[ about that, about what he was trying to teach. he knows, a little, from their previous conversations and from the memory, but he wants to hear him work through it, too. ]