Steve's eyes narrow a little - not at the situation here and now, necessarily, but at the idea that it might have been an empty threat. And yet every nonhuman he's talked to has been so terrified of it.

But then - "I don't know if anyone who needs the glamour has actually left," he has to admit. Because that alone isn't tipping too much of his hand. "But I know they're afraid. I don't think that's the way to run an organization. I don't think that's the way to help people, and ADI sure makes it sound like they're helping. Like they're afraid people won't stay if they aren't reliant on ADI for their livelihood - or their lives."

Which maybe makes him wonder, "Why do you stay?"