/o/ !!
I see. This is a common case for many here, to be weakened so by our awful warden. I wish you all the best of luck.
[he perks up, regarding her with a new look]
But Pain-wheel, girl—you were given your name in a laboratory?
So was I! Oh, this is thrilling! My people are all grown in laboratories, you see. I have never before found a human with which I share such origins! Most of your kind reproduce in... some other, far less efficient fashion. I am not sure what the process is, and I am not very interested.