[ To that, she squints. ]

Of course it is an experiment. They want to know what we will do, how we will break, if it will be different this time. This may not have happened to anyone we know, but it has happened before, and it will happen again.

[ Torture, experimentation, treatment. They all go together in her world. Is this itiration forty-something, or four-hundred and something? ]

We are trapped in an orouboros.