He looked at her as he said that, absorbing her words with wide eyes, and then he looked towards the ground to reflect for a moment. Arietta, Leah... he didn't think he felt those feelings anymore. But he knew that in one case, one of those experiments led to real feelings for Katara. What if they still had feelings? He'd been briefed about the Valentines experiment many times, but not on what comes after.

So he looked back at her with an uncertain expression.

"What do you do when it's over?"