[Yeah, Tucker was luckily not a normal situation but she wasn't going to realize that Despite his casual tone, there's clear disgust underlying his words.]

He turned her into a chimera. Human alchemy is strictly forbidden, but... I guess they make exceptions if the military thinks they can benefit from it.

[He doesn't offer what a chimera is right off the bat. Either she already knows, or she'll ask if she really wants to. At least that's how he sees it. He's fully aware that she might not want to know given the subject.]

That was all he cared about. Creating one that could talk, and there's no easier way to do it than get people involved.