"So it's like...a download of someone, uploading into a new form that just happens to have this extra tendency to want to continue spawning. That's...even more disturbing, really." Where do the lines get drawn, then? Are you actually gone or are you still kind of you, if just...slightly more parasitic? Boy he hates this line of questioning.

Donnie tries to get off of that particular detail, focusing on what Dylan brings up as he answers his questions.

"...maybe central command, as you say, isn't here. If it's been Confluenced, then maybe it's just one piece of a whole, a drone separate from the rest of the colony. That'd explain the whole fear and confusion. Under such circumstances, it forces itself to recreate a colony from scratch, so in that case, either this central command is still trying to work itself out or it actually has chosen a body as its nature would potentially necessitate, to act as hive queen or whatever."