[It takes him only a moment to realize he probably shouldn't have said that. Despite his (temporary) humanity and recently-acquired empathy, it seems that he's still very good at sticking his foot in his mouth. Wheatley full-body cringes away from her finger, as if fully expecting her to enact violence on his person.]
No, no, that's not what I--I didn't mean that!
[He still doesn't understand much about what he saw, but he does know that all of the people in the memory were human children. Despite his outward demeanor, he's seen a fairly significant amount of human death, both caused by him and otherwise--for the first time, he finds that he's a little horrified about this. Even if she's a killer herself, this shouldn't have happened to her. It's terrible, and wrong.
Which means, perhaps, that what he did to the test subject was terrible and wrong in turn. ]
no subject
No, no, that's not what I--I didn't mean that!
[He still doesn't understand much about what he saw, but he does know that all of the people in the memory were human children. Despite his outward demeanor, he's seen a fairly significant amount of human death, both caused by him and otherwise--for the first time, he finds that he's a little horrified about this. Even if she's a killer herself, this shouldn't have happened to her. It's terrible, and wrong.
Which means, perhaps, that what he did to the test subject was terrible and wrong in turn. ]
Your other classmates, did they--