She lifted her head somewhat; looking back up; ‘How so?…Though I mean not to pry…It has been sometime since I have been spoken to so humanely. People tend to like the money they get for putting someone like me into the hands of scientists…’
Not a good moment to tell her he was a scientist too, then, he thought.
“I am as different as normal people as you may be, and I know there isn’t always kindness for us in this world” he started saying. “In fact… some do not even consider me to be… human at all”
There, he had said it.
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