Dani, I won't lie to you and say I'm not angry, but I understand that you were only trying to help your friend, like we're trying to help ours. The difference is that your friend has enslaved our friend. We're not doing this out of some grudge, we're not trying to get revenge. We just want Tom's freedom.

You say that there's a plan to create artificial host bodies, but who knows how long that could take? Even assuming you're successful, even assuming Iniss is willing to switch over, that could mean additional months or years of slavery for my brother. Iniss has had his turn. Why can't he be the one to wait out the scientists in slug form? Why does it have to be Tom who keeps paying the price?