Oh, listen to you. So invested in my story. How altogether sweet.

[ He's quiet a moment, lips turned up in a thin smile, and then he says: ]

Quite right, though. That's it. You monster. The problem is that I simply do not have certain...capacities. Or so it seems. I watch love and compassion happen around me, and I'm simply confused. They're strange to me. Like everyone is speaking in a foreign tongue.