ic contact.

[heartlessglitch]

YOU HAVE SUCCESSFULLY INITIATED CONTACT WITH DANGER.

I AM CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE TO RESPOND.
YOU ARE ENCOURAGED TO LEAVE A CONCISE MESSAGE.
THANK YOU.

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[heartlessglitch]

[ That's the trouble with Aaron Stack-- he understands her in a way that a human never really could. Most of them are distracted by the armor, the outward impassivity, or her sheer power. Fascination and fear. But Aaron is her equal. He is like her. And he sees past all of that.

At length, she answers a bit distantly, as if to detach herself from the implication of her words: ]

Someone I trusted. A human.

[clanky]

[ He'd let out a breath he was holding, if he had one. Haven't they all been there. ...Or maybe they haven't. He can't quite recall a time when he was, but that might require allowing himself to be close to somebody again, and he hasn't really done that in quite awhile. But he remembers the Alternate Jocasta's admonition: she'll just disappoint you like all the fleshies have before her. She'd had reasons for saying it. ]

They do that, sometimes.

[ Which, coming from him, is a relatively mild statement, given that it's not bitter and sweeping contempt. ]

And it happened-- like this?