[He's pretty sure this means Flynn was trapped on the handle side of the scalpel. Even when they were never there, this place manages to force that event on people...]

Technically speaking, nothing happened to me, either. But it did. If you were- ...made to be one of them, like I was, that isn't really "nothing". And not being as bad doesn't- doesn't make it nothing, either.

[His breath keeps trying to come too short and he's stubbornly trying to keep control of it. It only serves to highlight his distress, rather than hide it. It may have been a month ago, but it's still a very raw spot, recently made worse by the knowledge of what it could have done to him.]