There's a pause as September puts his thoughts to words.

"I have been here for three months and eight days," he answers softly, "during which time I have... realised that I have been changing for several years, now." His gaze drops, then comes back up again. "I cannot hear the minds of my people, here. I am... unobserved."

There's a beat and he adds: "It is... a kind of freedom."