[ her response is quick. unsurprising, really, with how agonizingly long something as an average as a conversation can seem to her. ]

We lacked in such resources ourselves.

[ it's an unnatural softness. she knows. she is unnatural; inhuman. ]

If we weren't before, we would be now. Still, it would disperse the energy you have created in the room today. [ he's doing the posing she wants, anyway. with great interest, she watches him, then copies him. under the rag, her skin feels like jelly. ]

Strange...