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Murderbot | SecUnit ([personal profile] offinventory) wrote in [community profile] deercountry 2022-09-04 03:55 am (UTC)

Murderbot would love to say 'oh, no, lets all head home and get a good night's rest,' but that wouldn't satisfy the person. They would go down without supervision and drown or worse, and Murderbot would have to live with that. Even if they respawn and drones don't, it's been through forced shutdowns, memory wipes, and significant loss of bio mass. It lived. It's alive. It's not an experience it recommends to anyone.

So yes, it's sure. Murderbot nods, and the drone flies away, skimming above the glowing water so long as that's an option. It pauses, above the surface, and Murderbot looks at the human. "We can watch this from shore," it says. It doesn't need to pause the drone and its input to say as much, but a human would need to. It's the human-ist SecUnit in history. Totally human mmhmm yep (nope) indeed.

While it waits an answer, the drone dives under the surface into the glowing water. The display of its view lights up brightly in the dark night. The drone is surrounded by light, and Murderbot cannot easily make out anything in the dark water beyond the glowing route.

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