[The way she's telling it is a person reciting history, not someone who actually lived through it. That's good-- nobody should know what it is to be experimented on to become a soldier-- but it means he doesn't feel right offering her sympathy either.]
So you were born this way?
[That must have been awkward, having a kid with powers to contend with.]
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So you were born this way?
[That must have been awkward, having a kid with powers to contend with.]