"I'd love to torture you."
A smile creeps up the hallucination's face. "Don't be silly. If you were the torturer, I'd be having too much fun to reveal anything. Besides, you lack the subtlety to torture; you just want to rip things apart. That yields dead subjects, not talkative ones."
"I'm not subtle? Do you think I learned to hack limbs off in medical school?"
"Surely causing pain wasn't in the curriculum?"
"Lack of anesthesia makes quite a difference."
"I know that."
Oh. Of course she did.
She smiled. "We are far too similar for you to hurt me, Stein."