"Oh? Are you certain of that? Or would your father have been the sort to stop her?"

Because David has theories, but not any data to back them up.

"It's excruciating not to be touched. But I can't control any of it right now. If you did, you might touch me skin to skin, and clearly there are things you're not ready to share with me. And I can't be sure what echoes of Thunderclap left in me won't attack."

And that's the god's truth.