[For a moment, the light lasts longer than the darkness, showing that those words did touch something in him... but then it fades, and the rock slab tilts slightly on Luke's end while it lifts Paprika up, threatening to dump him into the poisonous sea while saving her from such a fate.]

It's not like that. I'm just a replica... a copy of someone. I wasn't even born. And I've... I've done a lot of terrible things just because I was so stupid-

[Luke's starting to slip as the purple below him turns red, and he grabs onto the rough edges of the rock to try and keeps himself out of it. Most try to avoid death even when they think it's the best thing, after all. It's only been seven years since he was made and he's already covered in blood, and he's about to sink down in it.]