It's not something I care to experience again. I'll be more careful in the future.

[Erwin takes a deep breath, then visibly pushes his emotional turmoil aside. There's no time for that now.]

I have no right to ask this, but your technology is beyond anything I've ever seen. Would you be capable of making me a functional prosthetic arm?

[The whole Illithid thing happened because Erwin overestimated his capabilities, and a large part of that is, when he's making decisions, he still thinks he has two arms.]