You were going to dismantle the machine, were you not?

...So it wasn't exactly by choice? [ forced to revise his assumptions again, but this is par for the course for any conversation with scien. still, he doesn't offer pity because he thinks it would just get thrown back at him. ]

And, I didn't think you were interested. [ he'd just meant, glad dahut was spared from the pain in general. if there's anything he knows about scien, it's that he cares deeply for dahut. ]