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[He makes a face.] I've seen what experimentation can do to people and animals. It's not safe. [Only after the words are out does he remember that she saw it too -- that shared dream that seems a lifetime ago. If she hadn't known beyond doubt that seeing formerly living beings stuffed in fluid-filled tubes after being killed via experimentation had profoundly affected him, it's clear enough now.]
-- Anyway. I don't want to ruin your appetite with bad conversation.