Yeah. And might be feeling a little profiled for it, too. [It's wry, mostly, but there's some truth behind the sentiment.

People like him – the augmented – there's a tendency for others to treat them like simple machinery. An expectation that just because they can lift those thousand-pound loads, then that's what they're obligated to do. All his life, he'd tried to help people – and he'd initially done so by joining the police force. Not by carrying boxes around.

He glances around, jerking his head in the guy's direction.] Given what I've heard about other people's assignments, I'm going to assume you weren't much luckier.