"Care? Nonsense. I can't -" But that's not true anymore, is it? He's not Vexen now. He can. Theoretically, it's possible. "I don't -" I don't care, he wants to assert. She's just a project. It means nothing. Only clearly it does mean something, and Aeleus is the one who knows about that kind of thing. "What do I do about it?

"I'm not sure I can," he says, jumping topics like the other is dangerous. "Not here, with barely any materials - I don't even have my notes, I don't know what I did, what I didn't do, what happened -"