"They can do that?" Felix lifts his eyebrows: he's thought of the alternative, yes- but he can't rule out the possibility that Harrow's right. Harrow knows those blades so much better. And Felix thinks of that first trembling voice who did answer, only to be sent away...

Still, this is a new and disconcerting prospect, and he has to ask. "They can just shut your consciousness away like that? Have they ever done that... before?" Watch him slow down as it sinks in that that's kind of a personal question no matter how academically interesting it is. Academically and practically.