... Such things are physicality. You yet feel, and you are here. It may not make you "human" as others here are, but you are... a person, nonetheless.

[ Though in a way she understand that the way he speaks of "being human" goes beyond the race itself, even if it is the one to which he deeply relates still, despite all he's gone through. ]

This... will prey mostly on your fears and anger, taunting until you give into it. Such a thing... is likely not dissimilar to what became of my... of the Emperor, reigning for ten millennia as he had. But unlike him you are not alone in this. You have glimpsed what may happen and so... we are more prepared, even if we do not know how we may assist just yet.