Transmutation.

_{[He corrects Blake more as though the ex-policeman had just made a slip of the tongue rather than not having any idea what he was talking about.]}

And-- well, no, when I was created, it was just from someone trying to bring me back. She knew what she was doing, so it wasn't an experiment.

But the soldiers did experiments, later on.

I hate soldiers.

_{[He reaches up to idly scratch behind one ear like a monkey, and goes on as he does so.]}

Lust definitely killed me. She's killed lots of people. So have I, but she was faster that time.

We don't do it anymore, though.

She says that's because this is a "new beginning", where we can "be whatever we want to be".

I want to be a thing that has friends, but I can't do that if I don't know where my friends are. That's why I asked if you knew.