"No," he said simply, firmly. "You're no more a "what" than I am the President of the Earth Empire. Saying that you are would be the same as me saying that two very good friends of mine are..." He couldn't bring himself to finish. Tegan and Oliver had both been possessed with nasty, awful entities and neither were the same after. Even now, he worried about Oliver's well-being.

Not that he didn't have his own experiences with being possessed and losing his sense of self. But he'd never gone through anything Emil was currently experiencing. Or perhaps the things that took him over simply liked to torture him with the memories of what it did while in his body...

He dug into his pockets, pulling out a stethoscope a moment later, and held it out to Emil. "Listen, I want you to put this on and hold the end against your chest. Tell me what you hear."