"I think it was a proof of concept," she snips, squinting at a point across the street of apparent great interest. "Not a particularly helpful one."

It's an unnecessary harshness, but she doesn't see it as hypocrisy from her words before about cruelty. She has a point to this, and it is pushing the image of butterflies as far from her as she can, their mimicry intolerable.

"Do you know how you would have gone about removing yourself from your 'catbox'? Or are lightshows all you can manage?"