"I've been lucky in a sense. I ought to be dead; instead I met people willing to believe in me when I couldn't even understand that I wasn't being me. They've all been...very kind."

Erin halts the roll of the knife and holds it by the tip. "Most of the advice I was given presupposes being a human person. You're... familiar enough to my frame of reference there, but I'm sure you see the trouble."