[Even though he knows what his answer is now, he takes a while to respond, just because he doesn't know what he would have said before. They're equally important, he thinks, both answers, because Daneca doesn't quite know who he is now, even if she's seen it. She never wanted to accept what he was then, either.]

[Eventually, he shakes his head.]

No. He wasn't. When it happened, I don't really know what I thought but it was all tangled up with - with my mom and with Lila and everything. Which isn't fair. That's what people want to think about emotion workers because it's easy. And for me it was - really, really easy.

But you're so far away from being like my mom you're on another planet. Sam was wrong.