[This is fair, understandable, and logical. To waste food is a crime, even if it's not so limited a resource as Dimos is accustomed to. Which is why he pauses, taking in that distaste plain on Peter's face, before scooting his chair over so that they're side by side.]
I lack capability to swallow, yet I must test food for poisons and drugs.
[And, since his facial bandages are unwound, he even makes a point of opening his sculpted mouth wide, perhaps too wide, so that the cream-spattered silicon insides are visible. A perfect cavity, to be sure, but without any oesophageal opening of any sort.] Waste is unavoidable. I apologise.
i am so sorry for peter's lots.
I lack capability to swallow, yet I must test food for poisons and drugs.
[And, since his facial bandages are unwound, he even makes a point of opening his sculpted mouth wide, perhaps too wide, so that the cream-spattered silicon insides are visible. A perfect cavity, to be sure, but without any oesophageal opening of any sort.] Waste is unavoidable. I apologise.