"For me too, but not -" He tries to choose his words carefully. He doesn't want to frame it in a way that makes Jesus feel like K does occasionally - not, specifically, with Jesus but with everyone - like Jesus wouldn't have ever wanted anything to do with K if it weren't for quota, for the LIES program.

"This isn't how I would have behaved, if not for this place. Maybe eventually, and I'm not saying I don't like the things we did, that we do, because that's not true. But it makes me wonder if you would have liked what I was before. What I was without this."

The black mark down his throat he's always, always aware of even though he's always had the mark under his eye, too.