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[Wester nods along with Kaiba's words, slumping in their chair and looking on the verge of tears. Maybe, just maybe, they could-

-then a word slips out of Kaiba's mouth, and all of that burgeoning hope flies out the window, replaced by blind panic and rage.

"What an interesting specimen-"

"How interesting. Perhaps you would make a better-suited cocoon for the gods..."

"You're an interesting science experiment. Nothing more."

They snap upright, glaring at Kaiba with all the force of Atem at his most righteously furious.]

"Interesting?" Is that all I am to you? Some- some science fair project for you to dissect on the table so you can see how I work?!