A fair question, he thinks, idly toying with his glass. "Specimen or not, when you watch a little girl grow up, you want what's best for her. Comstock might have looked at her and seen a pawn or a weapon but I never saw her as that."

He'd always been a bit sentimental when it came to living things and studying the sciences. Definitely a preference to inanimate test subjects, and as fascinating as it was to study how the tear had affected Elizabeth, how it had given her a special talent, the way they'd gone about it was wrong.