[grimacing] I can imagine. Those people might have been human in body, but in mind? In spirit?

[making an angry, disgusted sort of noise]

My sister had more heart than they did, even before she had been properly given one.

[he hasn't been able to stop wondering: what would they have done to her, as she had been? he's met other versions of her; what if another who still had no heart came, and was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and...]