Abel lets all of this absorb quietly, listening to her explanation carefully. It was a strange circumstance... one that would be hard to puzzle out -- in more ways than one, as it came from differing perspectives in all likelihood. If Maine had made a choice to become infused with the AI's, then there was a reason -- and the pain of that choice and its consequences to York and the rest of Maine's allies.

"Do you know anything about the incident itself...? How he... changed?"

Caterina is right in likening them to two different people. 'The Meta' and 'Maine' were not the same; of that, Abel's certain.