[ angelo nods. there are examples back in the history of his world which speaks to a kind of experimentation that rings similar, so he can sort of place where the horror comes from. ]

We were getting certain stories from the bodies we've rescued - that somehow people who were captured were attempting to communicate in ways that you feel were normal, but to our end, it was a lot of .... miserable droning from the animals you've all become.

[ a pause, and then he adds, ] It's a miracle someone figured out that the seals would have to be cut open.