[ Part of Wash's anger at this whole situation is the fact that Wash has been made someone's experiment before, but he's trying not to think about that because... he needs to keep his shit together. There's nothing he can do about it. He's gone the vengeful anger route before, it didn't work out so well for him, he needs to keep his head on straight and not slip back into old habits. He's better now. He's different. He needs to focus on what he can do.

This is something he can do.

He watches Sharkface touch the design on the table, not daring to come closer yet but glancing up at him for a moment just to gauge if he's calming down at all. ]

I heard they... develop? You might be able to do other things with it.

[ This new powers thing could be common ground without giving himself away, yeah? ]

At least you know what it is now, you're ahead of me.