Gideon gives that the consideration it's due, his dark eyes on Amos all the while. Amos would not be the first man to play-act emotions--but if he does, he's quite skilled. A given, if he's been doing it for decades. And yet--

"Do you miss it?" he types out. The obvious answer might be no: without emotion, what could one feel of longing? But the definitions of mental states aren't hard-edged, and Gideon doesn't know Amos' personal lexicon intimately enough to guess where the boundaries of thought and feeling lie.