[The sad thing is, this makes a terrible amount of sense.]
[He continues staring for a moment or two, then gives a long, frustrated sigh and leans heavily against the back of the bench, letting his head hang backwards over the top.]
There aren't going to be experiments. I'm not going to ask for volunteers so I can test whether I have the power to kill them!
[He's said too much, and worded it incredibly poorly, but his filter is the least of his worries when fear and anxiety are eating him alive from the inside out. He doesn't want to kill anyone, he's terrified he's going to, he doesn't know how to figure it out without putting anyone in danger, and he refuses to do that.]
no subject
[He continues staring for a moment or two, then gives a long, frustrated sigh and leans heavily against the back of the bench, letting his head hang backwards over the top.]
There aren't going to be experiments. I'm not going to ask for volunteers so I can test whether I have the power to kill them!
[He's said too much, and worded it incredibly poorly, but his filter is the least of his worries when fear and anxiety are eating him alive from the inside out. He doesn't want to kill anyone, he's terrified he's going to, he doesn't know how to figure it out without putting anyone in danger, and he refuses to do that.]