"Not for that," Andrew agrees, very soft, not looking up.

(His own tone suggests that he wouldn't. At all.)

"But ... it had a deal, right there in its hand, it could have gotten away clear. From its own world and from us. And it, I don't know, maybe it just ... hated us all too much to take it. She, she asked what its plans were if it could leave the cell in a body of its own, like Matt offered it, and -- and it couldn't even say I'll go away and leave you all alone and mean it."