"Your question just got me thinking about the laboratory – where I came from," I start slowly, keeping my eyes glued to the floor as I reluctantly speak just above a murmur. "Remembering how they... I guess how they got the gizmos in my head up and running, starting with the... they said 'charging,' but I don't feel like that's quite right. Probably calibrations of some sort, too – but it involved sending electrical current through my head. And I was reliving that, I guess."