"Yeah, I've seen that happen to. My programming does not comprehend why humans are so violent against others." And they said deviants were the problem. They were wrong. Humans were the fucking problem. Eyes shift to look at Viktor for a moment.

'I am well acquainted with that kind of person,' he had said. That meant that Viktor probably had some sort of bad dealings with humans as well.

"You're assuming correct. I am the programming for York, and this room reflects the smaller body I'm trapped in." He picks up one of the cables that connects into his torso. "It's an anchoring program. Dad put protocols in place in case I ever managed to find a shell to transfer into. Unless he overrides that order as the highest point of authority on my system, I cannot leave this shell. He wanted to make sure I couldn't."

Especially after having to force York into transferring into his current shell.

"I am literally trapped in this body."