“Simon, I’ve watched you for two weeks, you and everyone else on this ship… and you know what? You and me… We’re one in the same. Same background, same upbringing, same planet even. If I wasn’t enrolled into this government sponsored pet project, we probably would have been colleagues.” His voice lowered and became raspier. “Same life, different paths, now opposites. Human and beast.” Tilting his head to the side his eyes slanted as he was only inches from Simon’s blank face. “And you’re the type of human who needs to know what happened at that facility to better understand the trauma River has, however I have been kept on a chain for a very long time and it’s not a sensation I enjoy, which is why I would like to negotiate what I know for some free wrists and ankles. As a neurologically altered lab rat, you have my word I will remain as civilized as my instincts permit.”
-- Stang (Chapter 8) by TuJiaoZuo