[ It's a silent sign of trust, not eating everything in sight. If the clone were more nervous, he'd be operating under the unconscious assumption that the food would go away, and so he'd be packing it in before it could be taken from him. Instead, he's eating just a bit more than would be justified for the metabolism of a seventeen-year-old six-food-odd boy. No anxiety prompting him to hoard, or to overeat just for the comfort of it. ]

Do you keep the link open all the time? With him? I could feel how...worried he was, that you shut him out while talking to me.

[ He swallows half an apple wedge.