I think we are. [ There's a short pause before he says it, but he thinks he's sure of that. To him, this all seems more the fault of the nanites, rather than any change in their fundamental selves.

Although...he knows plenty of people who thought of him and those he knew back home as more than just human, so. ]

...Many things here are frightening, when you arrive. [ He's saying the obvious though, there, trying to avoid giving too much away. ] And- that is one of them. And what they know of us, from the papers they give.

[ He's trying not to emphasize it, but that's what disturbed him the most; the idea that the government may know things about him he doesn't want others to realize. ]