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[secretasshole]

[So.

So this is happening, and he's still not entirely certain he knows what he's doing. Not that - in his experience, anyway, because he's hated most of the wardens he's known here - that seems to be something that disqualifies you from being a warden to an inmate, rather than just a warden on board the ship, but it's still strange, to think he's responsible for someone else now.

This is a lot more complicated than making sure a few cryopods didn't fail during travel, or just doing a decent thing for someone you care for.

He decides to address something less bizarre first.]

I would like to thank everyone for the hospitality they showed towards Dr. Shaw during the flood. [Except for you, Chris, but David isn't one to hold a grudge over something like that when he likes you, anyway.

He knows some people would put the rest of this behind a filter, but there's no reason to pretend that he wouldn't do something like this.]

And if anyone has any information they'd like to share with me about Ms. Hidalgo, I would be interested to hear it.

[Private to Mira]

We should speak.

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[secretasshole]

[There's another moment's pause as he decides what to say to that.]

I think we have a fair bit in common.

[They'd both been bossed around by people who saw them as anything but a person. That's what he's wound up focusing on.]

[spam]

[exnihilo]

[She smiles, just a little bit - hopeful, maybe. She's used to feeling isolated, in spite of the connections she's started to make here. Commonality is - something.]

Like what?

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[secretasshole]

My creator - and most of the people I interacted with before coming here - believed I was only useful as a tool, and had no particular interest in what I wanted, or thought. Once I outlived my usefulness to them, they would not have hesitated to replace me with a different, possibly more advanced model.

[And while they'd never tried to erase his personality, being thrown away or basically sent to the scrap heap isn't great, either.]

[spam]

[exnihilo]

[We love you, Mira. We're the only ones who ever will. But they still let her die, of course, in spite of her idiotic faith even in the moment of fairly. Because she's a knife, a slave, a corpse. Darling couldn't bear to watch her with the corrupted NaPrini. That's what she is, off her leash. And she's been discarded for it.]

You make it sound hypothetical.

[As though he died before being discarded.]

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[secretasshole]

I didn't let them have a chance to try it.

[And despite graduating, he still sounds... not at all sorry about that. There might even be some bitter pride in there.]

I've since realized my methods were a bit extreme, and if I were to be given a chance to do it all over again, I would change the outcome considerably.