And I'm trying to. [ Propping his elbow on the arm rest, his forehead comes to rest in his hand, hair coming away from its loose combing and hiding his eyes from the light. ] But I feel like you're leaping so far ahead in your reasoning that the extremity makes it difficult to see things as nascent as they are now. These things are just beginning, whatever they will develop into, and to immediately write it off as a plot to enslave or outright kill us all is hampering my ability to see it from where you're standing. I've been fortunate enough not to have been discriminated against in so drastic a way as you have, I understand that, but I don't want you reading into something that may not be there and making rash decisions based on it.
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