[His hesitation is thick enough that Lightning opens her mouth to say that he doesn't have to tell her, but he's already spoken and she closes her jaw with an audible "click" from her teeth. Not human. What defines that? Nothing Lightning understands, even after her own foray into that gray zone between.]

And she thinks less of herself because of it, doesn't she? She might not think she even has a right to live because she isn't human.

[It may be voiced like a question, but it really isn't. She can understand what that kind of thinking would lead to.]