"Noted."

Snuggle. "I think she has a tragic backstory, not that this has to affect anything about how scary you find her especially since you've got the dial turned all the way up no matter what."

"Oh?"

"I was selected for the program that trained me to do this at three, and took my first life at four."

"...Four what?  Not years old."

"Yes."

"I mean, I guess, how?  Were you already - showing signs of, of something...?"

"It was largely because of my parents' connections.  Not that this helped them, in the long run."

"What the hell kind of connections get your toddler kidnapped to be trained in spy thriller villainy? Like is this a euphemism for 'they made many enemies' or 'it's the family business' or 'for some reason in your culture this is a great honor' -"

"It was said to be a great honor, yes.  ...I am the best in the world at many things."

"I'm gonna wildly guess you were not a class of one and plenty of people handed over their three year olds and did not get a result who was best at the world at many things."

"This guess is correct."

"...Was there another euphemism in there?  Like, what, in the long run this was bad for them because they're on hand to be tortured if you fall out of line?  Or something?"

"No.  They are already dead by my hand."

"Wow that wasn't even my guess, I was guessing they had you doing hilariously dangerous training and most of them didn't live or washed out, not that they were doing some kind of, what's that kind of shark that eats its siblings, there's a kind of shark that does that, thing."

"Parents, not siblings."

"Oh, I was thinking about your fellow three year olds, not your parents, when I said that."

"Some of those also.  But incidentally, to accomplish real goals, not as part of training."

"Gotcha. I should probably be more sorry for your parents than I am but I do not have a normal emotional range right now and so my actual reaction is more like 'maybe they should have thought of that before enrolling their kid in Tiny Tots Assassin Training'."

"Oh.  This is better for me."

"It's like, nice that you're really self-actualized as a spy thriller villain or whatever, but I'm skeptical."

"It is better for me that you currently do not feel much sympathy for them," she clarifies.  "So I hope you do not feel bad for not having the reaction you 'should'."

"Why does it matter to you that your parents are not currently high on my list of things to have feelings about?"

"I still do not wish to harm you."

"You are an odd duck."