I'm not- if I were truly shut off, I would not be able to read your intent when we spar, or pick up on stray thoughts without realizing it. But, looking back, it's obvious now that the people whose company I found most enjoyable were those with some degree of Newtype potential.

Whenever we speak of this subject I can't help but think of Epyon, of the fact that you were part of a machine instead. You're clearly much more fond of your Tallgeese, but the form you take as a Myth... I worry that connection is too similar too what Newtypes experience, that you long for it the way I long for those whose souls have touched mine.

[Quattro grimaces and covers his face.]

I think it would help you let go of the past. I know I would be better off, even if it's unsettling to contemplate what would change between us, or how we might change one another.