"I'm... not that interested in going back." He gives a guilty little grin. "The ones who ran the experiment are gone but... I betrayed my own kind by aiding the Stran...gers in Their work, even if it was under... coercion." He makes a kind of vague gesture at himself, hunched and limping and out of breath, with his scarred eye. There was really a lot of 'coercion'. "I don't think I'd be very popular, once people... found out."