Norman's bright eyes were met with Eddie's narrowed ones.

"Good to see you so optimistic, Norman. Not many in your position would be able to muster the happy delusion," he said, his tone polite. "But moving on -- how do you foresee your eventual contribution to society, assuming you're allowed to mingle with sane people again?"

The inflammatory language was, in fact, not approved by the nonprofit agency Eddie was an agent of.

He assumed Norman knew as much.