[...dammit, he gets the feeling this kid is taking it personally again.]

Give it time, Rex. Think of it this way; I just lived a more boring life, that's all.

[That's kind of the thing. Yeah, all he's remembered is lab-monkey-get-coffee, lab-monkey-do-tests, lab-monkey-shoot-genetic-freak-escaped-experiments, and two months ago he'd be fine with that, but there had to be more to it--to HIM--than that! There had to!]

[But he can't articulate this very well. In fact the best he can do is:]

Don't worry.