Alloran nods, human style. There are ways to make use of them that would involve never seeing the sun again, but it would certainly be a waste. He is inclined to believe that this offshoot of humanity has ruined its world and is in, as he was saying earlier, desperate straits.

And he doesn't really have anything more to add on the subject yet, so he readily returns to the more frivolous topic. This conversation is going amazingly. No one's been beheaded or even threatened yet - he still keeps half expecting Esplin to speak up or do something horrible, and it keeps not happening.

<Is it so unpleasant as that? I suppose it's not worth morphing human to try.>