(Suspicion clearly visible now. Followed by immediate contrition.) I just -- I know how -- I can understand the impulse to blame someone. We all want to. But Dr. Gravem is afraid you may be here looking for -- a villainess? Which would hurt my treatment.

I’m not the same person I was then. Dr. Gravem says we change more than our skins every seven years. The cells from that time are already slipping from my body.

JS: No one could blame you. Of course not. That’s not what I’m here for, at all. I just want to clearly and completely understand what happened.

MS: Which is exactly what you can’t do. No point in trying. (pauses)

Don’t you see, even our memories are written in new flesh. They’re just memories of memories -- not what really happened, you know. Just what we’ve been telling ourselves. Two very different things.

But never mind me. Set your machines. I’ll do whatever you say.

JS: All I want is some very general profiling. Calibration, association, same sort of thing you’ve done before. And there’s absolutely no reason this has to be finished today; you let me know instantly if you begin to tire and we’ll stop.

MS: No, I’d like to finish today.

JS: I'll be using standard Kressian protocols, I know Dr. Gravem favors these, too. Any question I ask you, you may also ask me; I'll do my best to answer honestly. This is entirely at your discretion. Of course, the more often I do this, the longer the interview becomes.

We’ll start simple. Try to