Ones just like this. The Malnosso... e-edit us, edit the compound; their methodology is such that I cannot explain it, and neither can a-any of the brightest minds here... they tell us l-little, I suppose to prevent us from manipulating it to our advantage...

... I have had my b-body and mind altered in various ways many times over the c-course of my stay here. Sometimes the changes are s-subtle... but sometimes they are quite... striking. [A pause.] The Malnosso... made me a Trachemys scripta elegans, mutatens once.

[He lets that idea hang, for a moment.]