"It is all that matters! I am not human, and I will experience emotions only when I choose!" To think he had sought these experiences, hungered after emotions even when he wasn't on the brink of starvation. When he is healed it will be different. He will pick and choose and he will maintain the control he has lacked.

He shakes his head, mouth set in a deep downward curve. He had thought Daniel was different. He had liked Daniel.

Liking things is part of the affliction.

"I am not human," he repeats. "And I should not be."