[Will's got good instincts. No matter how polite and cordial Henry manages to be--and he has practice, at least--there is always something a little off, a little piercing about the way he looks at someone when they reply to him.
This, especially. This is a subject that interests him in a morbid way, the kind of way that draws him in because he's been there, and yes, it's not a great time, being a lab rat for a government that cares more for using you than treating you like a human being. (Ironic, really, given his own outlook on life.) But this young man seems to want to retreat from the subject, in a way he can't quite parse.]
Then I'm sorry to hear it.
[He says, and it's clear that he's deciding whether or not he wants to pursue the point. In the end, he decides on-]
Anything in the name of science, right? That's what some would say.
no subject
This, especially. This is a subject that interests him in a morbid way, the kind of way that draws him in because he's been there, and yes, it's not a great time, being a lab rat for a government that cares more for using you than treating you like a human being. (Ironic, really, given his own outlook on life.) But this young man seems to want to retreat from the subject, in a way he can't quite parse.]
Then I'm sorry to hear it.
[He says, and it's clear that he's deciding whether or not he wants to pursue the point. In the end, he decides on-]
Anything in the name of science, right? That's what some would say.