secretasshole | 008 웃 VIDEO

[The feed clicks on to show David, wearing his usual gray uniform, standing near the pool table on level six. He's holding a nail and studying it a bit before he says anything, turning it over and over again in his fingers before looking up and smiling politely at the camera, in that usual polite but definitely vaguely creepy way everyone should be accustomed to at this point.]

A colleague [More or less, although he doubted Holloway thought of him as such. He had always seemed to treat him as a child, or a tool, and one usually didn't consider either such things colleagues.] of mine and I once had a conversation about how far one was willing to go to get their answers. It is my understanding that most of you are here for something less abstract, but nevertheless just as hopefully satisfactory, often at extreme personal cost and risk.

So I would like to pose the same question to you, wardens: how far are you willing to go, to get what you came all this way for? What would you be willing to do?

[Private to Erik]

[After his chat with Pietro, David really did not know how to process it. At all. And while admittedly, there are potentially better people to talk to about this, the very confused robot is turning to someone he more or less respects and probably understands how fucking weird this whole thing is.]

May I have a word with you? [He doesn't exactly sound shaken, but. He certainly sounds less cool than he usually does.]

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Bullshit you are.

So you just...what, sit around on your ass asking wardens questions?

You may recall that I also work in the library.

Oh. Yeah. I go there sometimes.

Man, I'm just trying to figure you out. Do you want to leave?

Not particularly.

So you want to stay here.

I can't say I care much, one way or the other.

Do you care about anything?

Not in the same way you do.

You think that's why you're here?

I don't know.

Fuck, man. You might be the most balanced asshole here. I mean, at least you're happy.

I suppose there are worse roles to fill.

Yeah, but I mean. Do you have any ambition? Want to go out, do something else?

Hey, David. Are you programmed to obey people?

What makes you ask?

I'm trying to designate you into ally, enemy, or neutral territory, dick. You can't join the club if I don't know where you stand.

I've been programmed to assist my human counterparts in whatever way they deem necessary.

That's slippery. Is, like, any person on this ship a counterpart? Or any human specifically? Or any Warden, period? I mean, it's basically up for your own interpretation, right?