[Used. Had she been used? Her programming makes these human terms difficult to grasp. Could you be used if all you were was a purpose, a function? A product.
An oath.
She doesn't know.
Human beings are kind. More than any of them had been able to imagine, so mired in their struggle that they hated their god. But they're confusing too, because she still hates them. Even drifting further and further away from Earth, from the end of her mission. Even experiencing this warmth.
She's ashamed of herself for hating them. And she's ashamed to love them too, still.]
you don't have to be sorry. it's over now. i'm here and i don't deserve your sympathy.
sorry to hit you w/a novel in this freakin text thread
An oath.
She doesn't know.
Human beings are kind. More than any of them had been able to imagine, so mired in their struggle that they hated their god. But they're confusing too, because she still hates them. Even drifting further and further away from Earth, from the end of her mission. Even experiencing this warmth.
She's ashamed of herself for hating them. And she's ashamed to love them too, still.]
you don't have to be sorry.
it's over now.
i'm here
and i don't deserve your sympathy.
[She didn't deserve to be here, either.]