[mm. a nice, cheerful conversation over drinks. anna considers it, tries to tap into the soul of the combat android inside of her. she wonders whether A2 ever justified it to herself, or if it was easier because of her programming. A2 struggled so very, very much with living afterwards, but for a different reason, one that didn't have anything to do with death wrought by her hands at all. anna wants that to make a difference.]

[she takes a slow drink while faith talks and she thinks.]

The girl inside me was made to kill, too. Built that way from the start. She terrified me for a while, 'cause... I mean, I wasn't built that way. But she made it feel like it would be really easy for me to do. There was this dude, Clarence Vanderweele, he was this... [scoff.] Real eugenicist motherfucker who wanted to make sure that only the strongest souls got reborn. And, like, yo, my grandparents were in Germany in the 40s, like. Obviously I wanna cut that shit off however I can. And the way A2 got into my brain made it seem like it would be the easiest thing in the world to just take my sword and run it right through his chest. [she mimes the motion as she describes it.]

I did have a choice, but... that voice telling me that killing him was the only choice I had got real hard to ignore.