"I didn't eat all of them!" whines Rashad, incensed at the injustice of her accusation. "Just -- just paaaaart!" The last word elongates into a howl broken by sobs, because how can she not see that he's trying, he's trying really hard right now and it's hard!

The experimental nudge prompts him to curl in tighter on himself and snivel louder. "I just want!" he explains miserably. There was some kind of thought at the start about what he wants -- Iman Asadi, here, explaining herself and turning herself over to him to bring back to ROMAC -- but it dissolved in the face of the realization that he wants quite a lot of things right now, many of them unidentifiable.