He may not get the reference Mark is making, but he's picking up on the point at least, and Mark is still missing his. "But they were still people. Humans, right? They were born, and they had parents and families." That's an assumption, at least - he doesn't know if Mark's world has clones like this world does, but Mark would've brought it up if it applied, right? Plus, clones are still people, as far as Huvrye is concerned - copies of existing people, but people nonetheless.

"That's not the same. The people who controlled me made me." Wait - is that the part that Mark's not getting? "I'm made out of dead civs and held together by alchemy. I wasn't born. I was never a kid. I didn't grow up. I don't have a soul. I'm not a person."

But it's nice to be treated like one, says a quiet voice somewhere deep in his mind. He's not listening - the hypocrisy and indoctrination run far too deep to be uprooted so easily - but the thought is still there.