"Think of it as tinkering with a machine that is the only one of its kind. I want to find out how it works, how to limit the harm it causes, perhaps how to use the information we gather from it to enhance our own machines." No one understood the wonder of kidneys as large as houses...Newton Geiszler, perhaps, but Abe was not so far gone as to actually etch the monsters onto his flesh. (He had no idea how ink might show up in his skin, anyway.)

Abe waited for Otto out of courtesy, but he was clearly itching to get to the "machine" as fast as possible.