"Yeah, well, then I stumbled on a conversation between you and Mikodez there. And I know you told me you hadn't met him before, and I didn't think you were lying." He doesn't have anything to base this off of, really, besides Gut Instinct, something that has a tendency to get him into trouble. "And I asked the Roci to queue up the repeat conversations. Some of them were a lot more repeat than I remembered. So, when I had a chance, I talked about it to Mikodez, and I also told the Roci to analyze some of the brain data floating around in that mess."

His thumb is rubbing along Jedao's hand.

"I have no idea what the brain data showed," he says. "It couldn't dumb it down enough for me. But I think it might show the molding that he did on your personality. Sometimes your symbols changed, to a kind of cup?"