[Luka freezes.

That…was not where he expected this conversation to go. He frowns, putting his mug down, trying to come to terms with the incongruity of it all.

Really? You wanna talk about that? Now?]

I…I guess it was really sort of a sneaking thing. I didn’t know it was happening until it happened.

Or maybe things were so messed up with the effects from Bennett’s alien symbiote I just thought it was part of that at first.

I had this feeling…of not being myself from all those doses. Of being replaced, overwritten. I think that’s what got the Stranger’s attention.