"Some people here are in a tighter spot than others." Hosts who've accepted the foreign invader in their brain, accepted the likes of those who've placed it there against their will, Hosts who've all but given up grappling the symbiote's draw, Hosts who never bothered to put up a fight in the first place. Hosts like Annie. Sam. Clarke. Misato. These are the people he pities, the lost causes, who will drown come their time to swim.

But since he's so conveniently brought up the topic...

"Hold off the symbiote, you mean to say." It's what he ought to mean to say, even if the intent isn't yet present. Kaji's voice takes on a conspiratorial edge that wasn't there before. "There are the Hosts like you and me, and there are the Cathaways."

If he's had the displeasure of talking to her, Elliot will know what he intimates. If he hasn't, all the better if he asks.