[Before she can stop herself (after all it isn't real--is it) Reeve has taken a step back. Hojo. Not that they've ever had much contact, but she's aware in a general, peripheral way, of what the man thinks of her work. Still, this is different. Jarring. The personal insults she's heard before, and she doesn't mean to respond, but the rest--]

No. That isn't true. All the research, it belongs to Shinra--I've never had a say about any other than my intended applications. SOLDIER is-- she isn't erratic. She's a human being for God's sake!