He can still determine that it's in a range that he would have heard without this level of sensitive hearing- it's something he can appreciate, quietly, if only because it means he is not being distilled to just those powers.
In many ways, he's at a loss for words before he replies, and still, even then. "Because if I had stayed that way, I wouldn't be here in the first place." For multiple reasons. Evandau had kept them both under surveillance in the prison until he was sure it was an outside influence, and one that had disappeared.
The change of personality had been to one that consisted of many traits he had opposed in his people- the detachment, superiority. Assured arrogance. Callousness. Distilling everything to logic, as long as it agreed with previous preconceptions. A 'model' Kryptonian who would have never left that cell even under deceit because pretending empathy or affecting equality with alien races would have been beneath him.
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In many ways, he's at a loss for words before he replies, and still, even then. "Because if I had stayed that way, I wouldn't be here in the first place." For multiple reasons. Evandau had kept them both under surveillance in the prison until he was sure it was an outside influence, and one that had disappeared.
The change of personality had been to one that consisted of many traits he had opposed in his people- the detachment, superiority. Assured arrogance. Callousness. Distilling everything to logic, as long as it agreed with previous preconceptions. A 'model' Kryptonian who would have never left that cell even under deceit because pretending empathy or affecting equality with alien races would have been beneath him.