[Well... now he feels sick. Yeah, in that frame of reference, Nida is lucky. Thing was? That could have been something he might have been. Another world, a slightly stricter training regime? Who knows. Sure, he'd probably still think some, but he was created to be something like that.]

I'm nowhere near extraordinary enough to have managed to break free of something like that. It was hard enough not to just be the little para-military drone I was without serious help. I barely even knew how to make friends.