"'Changes' and damage aren't the same thing," he says, and there's the feeling almost of someone gearing up to talk about the thing they know better than themselves. "Brains are changing all the time, especially at your age - the main part of your development doesn't finish until around twenty-five, and every time you learn something new, you're changing stuff around in there."

Even if it's just learning the traditional way, instead of the injecting alien bits programmed with other people's memories way. Neither trauma nor development was Morgan's specialty, but learning and memory sure as hell were. "Damage is something that can't be fixed or worked around. You can learn your way around trauma, teach your brain to do other shit with it. It's long and hard and it sucks, but it's not like getting a hit to the back of the head and having blurry vision the rest of your life."

He takes a deep breath, which is obviously for calming, considering breathing isn't how he speaks. "That's my opinion as someone who inherited a neuroscience degree, anyway. I'm not a psychology guy." A weak shrug, with one shoulder only. "The Lovecraftian bullshit is closer to being in my wheelhouse, honestly."