But those eyes, like those teeth, were a gift from Master Huey, a special request from the test subject that he was happy to indulge. Those eyes are strange and monstrous, and they smile with his mouth.

It isn't that Christopher is hiding things. Not in the ordinary way. Christopher believes all of this. He answers, "Collette, if you're calling Master Huey unsettling, I'll also have to take that as a personal insult against myself," and he says it with a definite sincerity. It's a gentle reprimand, certainly, but no trace of any opposite thought leaks through. Because there is no thought opposite to this.

Christopher loves Huey Laforet. He worships and admires him.

If he didn't, he could never survive what Huey puts him through.

Then he affects a look of hurt. "Wait, you're not calling me unsettling, too, are you, Collette? Even after I've accepted you despite your habit of stealing the forms of birds and rabbits! Is this the limit of our friendship?"