[One failed negotiation tactic. Pushing logic is next in line, though there’s something uneasy about what Hank said that makes it lose its fervency. As if he speaks knowing it won’t land, not the way he means for it to.]

I can’t feel pain, I’m not alive. If you know this to be true, then rationalize what you’re seeing away.

[As if it were so easy. Connor shifts uncomfortably where he sits. Registers how his shoes feel wet and squishy; he wonders if they’re ruined.]

You have a habit of being unnecessarily worried for me. Even if you don’t remember it, Lieutenant.