Well, that's... not terribly encouraging, but V can't really complain either.

"Trying to discern if I had self-repair abilities."

Switching which paws they are resting on, one drifts up to a spot on their now fur-covered neck. "This mark glowed. I do not know why it reacted to that in particular, or if it was random."

There was a particular undercurrent of anger at the word mark.